Additional Resources

If you come across other good resources, please pass them on to us.

Books

• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick (late 2009)
• Escaping North Korea, by Mike Kim (2008)
• The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag, by Kang Chol-Hwan and Pierre Rigoulot (French version, 2000; English version, 2001)

Movies/Documentaries/Videos

• Kimjongilia (2009) – N.C. Heikin’s excellent film featuring many interviews with a variety refugees and defectors.  Available for download for a very reasonable price via link from official site.
  • Official Selection 2009 Sundance Film Festival
  • Best Film 2010
    One World Festival Brussels & Human Rights and Democracy Network

• On the Border (2008) – A South Korean documentary following North Korean refugees; secretly filmed in China and several other countries.   Watch the BBC version.
• Crossing (2008) – A South Korean movie based in part on various true stories about North Korean refugees.  Watch on YouTube.
• Born and Raised in a Concentration Camp (2008) – a Google TechTalk with Shin Dong-hyuk

Reports

• Pursuing Peace While Advancing Rights: The Untried Approach to North Korea, David Hawk (May 2010)
• Annual White Paper, Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU)
• Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB)

• The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK)
• Denied Status, Denied Education: Children of North Korean Women in China, Human Rights Watch (2008)
• A Case to Answer – A Call to Act, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (2007) – focuses on the extensive political prison camp system

News

• The Daily NK
• Rimjin-gang
• Open Radio
• PSCORE

Blogs

• Witness to Transformation – written by economists Marcus
  Noland and Stephan Haggard, who have researched and written extensively about North Korea
• Helping Hands Korea – written by Seoul-based activist Tim Peters; be sure to check out the Tuesday night meetings (scroll down to “Catacombs”) if you live in Seoul
• One Free Korea – Written by a former U.S. military lawyer who served in Seoul.  This site comes with lots of commentary (it is a blog, after all), but whether you agree or disagree with his political opinions, you will learn a lot from the posts and many of the commenters.