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This is Paradise - My North Korean Childhood by Hyok Kang there last month. The author was bron in North Korea and lived there till the age of about 13 when the family escaped to China and eventually to South Korea (some of the dates in the book don't tally, but there's a note at the start saying dates and names have been changed to protect others). He talks about everyday growing up - school, family and friends, favourable treatment because a relative had been pictured with Kim Jung Il, public executions, famine, forced labour camps, TV - and then moves on to the family's escape to China and down east Asia to South Korea. I read it in a day; very easy to read book, told with a child's simplicity (although Hyok was around 20 when he wrote the book, in conjunction with a journalist). He ends by basically acknowledging just how brainwashed he was - the family had no intention of going to South Korea initially because they believed everything they'd seen on telly about how it was a nasty place with regular riots. He's also very forthright about how he's found it very hard to fit in in South Korea.
If you've any interest in what's arguably the most fascinating country in the world - for all the wrong reasons admittedly - get a hold of this book. Really excellent.