Melanie Kirkpatrick’s
Escape From North Korea described the brave Christian
activists who smuggle families out of the madness of North Korea
and into China. Her book illuminates the sheer scale of human
suffering, John Gorenfeld writes, but it also sands out the
contradictions in the story, spends too much time offering a
neoconservative critique of China, and doesn’t always draw her
Korean characters with the richness they deserve.

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