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Test your North Korea knowledge! The author who has lived and worked in North Korea for seven years invites you to find out how much you have been misled and lied to about North Korea by the media, pundits and activists. He is happy to share insight and a more balanced view of the world's most isolated, under-reported and misrepresented country.
Readers’ Feedback:«A compelling departure from the universal story.»
—Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of 150 books
«Finally, the truth about North Korea. Felix Abt takes us inside the ‘Hermit Kingdom,’ and he shows us that the caricature we’re fed by the western media simply isn’t true. Do you want to know what life in North Korea is really like? Read this book.»
—John Kiriakou, Former CIA Counterterrorism Officer and former Senior Investigator, US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
«Swiss businessperson Mr Abt draws upon data and seven years of personal experience living and working in North Korea to demonstrate that nearly everything the Western media thinks they know about North Korea is either passé or inaccurate. A must read for anyone commenting on the Hermit Kingdom especially the mainstream media and their so-called 'expert' sources.»
—James Hyams, journalist and film maker, founder of the Watchdog Film Festival — the first and only film festival that screened investigative films diving into worlds otherwise unknown.
«Abt concludes his book by noting that, 'given the dominant U.S.-centric North Korea narrative, with no other voice to offer balance or express the true reality, it is hard to blame the general global populace for accepting the situation as America and its supporters wish it to be viewed.'
Perhaps if more Americans learned about the history of the Korean War and its barbarism, they might show some empathy for North Koreans and try and better understand the country’s policies; or perhaps, if more foreign exchanges are established, they might press their government to end the brutal sanctions and to pursue a formal end to the Korean War.
Until that time, we can expect that North Korea will be continuously invoked as a reference point for tyranny and its leader ridiculed, in quasi-racist fashion, as a clownish dictator.»
—Jeremy Kuzmarov, book author and managing editor of CovertAction Magazine, an investigative magazine with a focus on the activities and abuses of the CIA and other issues such as surveillance technology, prison system, U.S. wars and the environment.
«When it comes to North Korea we are usually fed Western propaganda, or shown the excesses and often lies about what North Korea represents. Once again Felix Abt has created something nuanced that only someone who has spent so much time in the country could produce. But it is also much more than just opinions about North Korea, this book offers some stark realities of what might befall us if policies don’t change as we waltz into Cold War 2.0»
—Gareth Johnson, founder and CEO of Young Pioneer Tours, a travel company specializing in tourism to countries including North Korea, Cuba and Iran.
«North Korea exists in international discourse as a land where cartoon villains keep millions of tragic innocents trapped in a huge, country-sized prison. While criticisms can certainly be made about the country, the extreme demonization is grotesquely unfair. Felix's message that these are real people in a real society is extremely important.»
—Nury Vittachi, writer based in Hong Kong, editor of Fridayeveryday.com, news of Asia without the Western lens. He authored dozens of fiction, non-fiction and children’s books.
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