North Korea

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    • Ordinary Lives in North Korea
    • By: Barbara Demick
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,198 ratings
    • Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years - a chaotic period that saw the unchallenged rise to power of Kim Jong-il....

    $18.05 or free with your Plus trial

    • Inside the World's Most Secret State
    • By: John Sweeney
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 658 ratings
    • North Korea is like no other tyranny on Earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation in the world, and Big Brother is always watching....

    $17.16 or free with your Plus trial

    • A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
    • By: Yeonmi Park
    • Narrated by: Eji Kim
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6,186 ratings
    • In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day....

    $18.00 or free with 30-day trial

    • Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look inside North Korea
    • By: Jang Jin-sung
    • Narrated by: Daniel York
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,202 ratings
    • In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il....

    $20.24 or free with 30-day trial

    • A North Korean Defector’s Story
    • By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
    • Narrated by: Josie Dunn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,616 ratings
    • An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....

    $24.67 or free with 30-day trial

    • A Scenario
    • By: Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,712 ratings
    • There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.

    $20.25 or free with 30-day trial

    • How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society
    • By: Jieun Baek
    • Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly....

    $14.61 or free with your Plus trial

    • One Man's Escape from North Korea
    • By: Masaji Ishikawa, Risa Kobayashi - translator, Martin Brown - translator
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,966 ratings
    • Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste....

    $20.00 or free with 30-day trial

    • True Stories of Those Secretly Bringing Hope to One of the Darkest Nations On Earth
    • By: Scott Croft
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Ruled by a maniacal dictator and cut off from the outside world, the citizens of North Korea are living in a darkness that has nearly destroyed ...

    $3.99 or free with your Plus trial

    • Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
    • By: Andrei Lankov
    • Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 607 ratings
    • Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....

    $24.95 or free with 30-day trial

    • Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
    • By: Michael J. Seth
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to be visited by Westerners, and its borders have remained largely unchanged since it was unified in the seventh century. Though it is one of the world's oldest and most ethnically homogeneous states, Korea was not born in a vacuum....

    $21.49 or free with your Plus trial

    • Weird Travel Series, Book 1: From Chernobyl to North Korea - One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places
    • By: Adam Fletcher
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Series: Weird Travel Series, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Adam Fletcher visits places everyone else is trying to escape from, and tourists don't normally go to. In this hilarious travel memoir, he'll enter a blizzard in China armed with only biscuits; pose as a scientist to sneak into Chernobyl; and more....

    $17.19 or free with your Plus trial

    • A North Korea Survival Story
    • By: Scott Peters, Ellie Crowe
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Imagine if you were told where to live and work, that your country's leader was an all-powerful god, and that if a relative did something wrong, ...

    $9.99 or free with your Plus trial

    • Personal Revelations From the Darkest Nation on Earth
    • By: Scott Croft
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Braving North Korea Vol. 2 continues the eye-opening journey of Volume 1 by bringing to light the courageous personal accounts of those who dare ...

    $7.99 or free with your Plus trial

    • A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America
    • By: Yeonmi Park
    • Narrated by: Maureen Taylor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 529 ratings
    • After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape....

    $14.99 or free with 30-day trial

    • One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
    • By: Blaine Harden
    • Narrated by: Blaine Harden
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Escape from Camp 14 is the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived....

    $15.75 or free with 30-day trial

    • The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
    • By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950....

    $17.19 or free with your Plus trial

    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

    $21.49 or free with your Plus trial

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    • The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
    • By: Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • Every Falling Star is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age 12 to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang....

    $15.47 or free with 30-day trial