Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
A remarkable story about only know escape fromm North Korea of someone born inside a no-release labor camp. This unique defender lethally snitched out his own mother, crawled out over the roasting body of a comrade and wandered China pilfering and begging his way to ultimately Shanghai and then the West Cost of America.
The impact of this amazing story in this edition is somewhat lessened by uneven narration. The author is the narrator, which is rarely a good idea ([a:Ayaan Hirsi Ali|46245|Ayaan Hirsi Ali|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1222672586p2/46245.jpg] is a notable exception) and this one seemed to need dub in regular corrections which is distracting.
This was something I enjoyed reading as counterpoint to bratty man-child "Supreme Commander" Kim Jong Un precipitous sabre-rattling tantrums.
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