This is a book that makes a difference because it makes us finger the suffering of a people under this totalitarian regime .It a very good idea to make us follow the path of several families "ordinary" under the despotic reign Kim il-sung and Kim Jong-il .Any is evoked through these for propaganda, repression, the excess, the great famine which claimed two million deaths a bankrupt economy, brainwashing through education machiavélique.Le made to follow specific actors in their daily lives, makes us understand the magnitude of the drama unfolding within more or less hermetic borders .An essential book for understanding what is happening there and that deserve to be known to be able to provide appropriate assistance see the hope of reunification with South freedom.