What to Read About North Korea

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Nicholas Kristof discusses the best books about the secretive country, and Tui Sutherland talks about the graphic novel edition of “Wings of Fire.”

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0:00.0	What should you read to understand North Korea?
0:10.1	The Times' op-ed colonist Nicholas Christoff joins us to talk about his readers' guide to
0:15.2	one of the most inaccessible countries on Earth.
0:18.5	How are dragons just like kids?
0:20.7	Bestselling author, Tuiz Sutherland joins us to talk about what it is that makes fantasy
0:25.0	so compelling for young readers.
0:27.5	Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world.
0:30.3	Plus, we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.
0:33.7	This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.
0:35.4	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:41.2	Nicholas Christoff joins us now.
0:42.8	He is an op-ed colonist for The New York Times.
0:46.0	And we are very lucky to have had him write a reader's guide to North Korea for the booker
0:51.7	view this week.
0:53.3	Nick joins us now.
0:54.3	Hi, Nick.
0:55.3	Hi, good to be with you, Pamela.
0:56.7	So this is an interesting assignment because North Korea, of course, is one of the least-known
1:03.8	countries in the world.
1:05.2	I think your lead to this essay sums it up perfectly.
1:09.8	You wrote North Korea may be the most secretive and totalitarian country in the world, as well
1:15.6	as the wackiest, which makes it good material for books, both fiction and nonfiction.
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