Without You, There Is No Us - Suki Kim

This audiobook was a great listen!  Suki Kim goes double undercover, as she poses as an undercover missionary teaching English at Pyonyang University of Science and Technology.

She teaches and grows attached to a group of privileged elite young North Korean boys, and describes their culture and philosophy, which is shaped by the North Korean regime.  She sometimes  compares and contrasts their worship of Kim Jung-Il with the worship of God by her missionary counterparts.

I loved this book.  Kim documents the sometimes odd behavior of the North Koreans and provides a first hand look and sometimes speculation behind the way that they behave.  But she doesn't do this in a cold way - she actually grows quite enamored of her students.  This is one of my favorite books of the year so far.