Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Author’s Note
Chapter 1 - Holding Hands in the Dark
Chapter 2 - Tainted Blood
Chapter 3 - The True Believer
Chapter 4 - Fade to Black
Chapter 5 - Victorian Romance
Chapter 6 - Twilight of the God
Chapter 7 - Two Beer Bottles for Your IV
Chapter 8 - The Accordion and the Blackboard
Chapter 9 - The Good Die First
Chapter 10 - Mothers of Invention
Chapter 11 - Wandering Swallows
Chapter 12 - Sweet Disorder
Chapter 13 - Frogs in the Well
Chapter 14 - The River
Chapter 15 - Epiphany
Chapter 16 - The Bartered Bride
Chapter 17 - Open Your Eyes, Shut Your Mouth
Chapter 18 - The Promised Land
Chapter 19 - Strangers in the Homeland
Chapter 20 - Reunions
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Photograph Credits
About the Author
Copyright
AUTHOR’S NOTE
IN 2001 I MOVED TO SEOUL AS A CORRESPONDENT FOR THE Los Angeles Times, covering both Koreas. At the time, it was exceedingly difficult for an American journalist to visit North Korea. Even after I eeded in getting into the country, I found that reporting was almost impossible. Western journalists were assigned “minders” whose job it was to make certain that no unauthorized conversations took place and visitors hewed to a carefully selected itinerary of monuments. There was no contact permitted with ordinary citizens. In photographs and on television, North Koreans appeared to be automatons, goose-stepping in formation at military parades or performing gymnastics en masse in homage to the leadership. Staring at the photographs, I’d try to discern what was behind those blank faces.
In South Korea, I began to talk to North Koreans who had defected, escaping to South Korea or China, and a picture of real life in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea began to emerge. I wrote a series of articles for the Los Angeles Times that focused on former residents of Chongjin, a city located in the northernmost reaches of the country. I believed that I could verify facts more easi
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