After reading so many stories about North Koreans defecting their fatherland I got my hands on a book that turns the tables on the whole idea of defecting North Korea. This guy was a Sargent in the US army in South Korea. He was afraid he was going to get hauled off to the Vietnam war in 1965. So he went AWOL and walked across the DMZ into North Korea thinking he would eventually be let loose to the Soviets and then let go for home in the US. Instead he was captured and did not leave for 40 years. Eventually after four decades of the weirdest life you could never imagine, he managed to survive and leave North Korea of his own volition. His story is the weirdest I’ve heard of in North Korea.
This book left me thinking of more questions about North Korea and it’s system of communism. After reading Escape from Camp 14 to now reading this, I’m convinced that the North Korean regime must actually hate their own people more than they hate Americans who they preach are their arch nemesis.