North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State (Paperback)

from Sandydog1

Can you imagine writing a history of the USA from circa 1940-present, by relying on the testimony of a couple kidnapped people, a couple defectors, a couple former government leaders, and a couple ambassador types? This book is repetitive and rambling, and represents a valiant effort to describe ...

from LamSon

In North Korea Undercover, Sweeney provides a very irreverent look inside North Korea. Sweeney, who does work for the BBC, joined a tour group as a 'professor'. He visited a hospital with no patients, a factory where nothing is built, museums devoted to Kim I and Kim II filled with little more th...

from TeaTimeCoder

Where was the editor? The book could really take advantage of a couple of revisions. Random callbacks, multiple repetitions, pointless asides - it hardly reads like a book and more like a long interview where you can't go back and restructure your statements as if it was written in one sitting. I...