Oh man, and I thought what happened in China was bad. A journalist wrote this book after years of interviews with North Koreans who defected to South Korea. Under the leadership of Kim Il-sung and now-president Kim Jong-il, they grew up in the last remaining 100% pure Communist country and were taught that they were better off than anyone else and had "nothing to envy." This, while they were starving from famine and their government was either refusing outside humanitarian aid or accepting it and then siphoning it over to the military. It's an eye-opening and heartbreaking read that sucked me right in.