No matter how much I read about North Korea, it's still hard to believe that a country like this could exist in our modern world. I kept having to remind myself that the stories in this book happened just a few years ago, not decades or centuries. A country with no electricity, no internet, no fo...
AS THE YEAR 1990 OPENED, THE BERLIN WALL HAD BEEN reduced to chunks of rubble hawked by souvenir vendors in a soon-to-be-reunited Germany. The Soviet Union was being wrenched apart at the seams. Mao Zedong’s face was an iconic image on kitschy watches that American tourists bought in Beijing. The...