Without you, there is no us : my time with the sons of North Korea's elite / Print
Suki Kim.
- First edition.
- New York Crown Publishers 2014
- 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm Hardback book.
"A memoir"--Jacket.
"A ... memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign"--Amazon.com It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields-- except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room. Suki Kim offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves."