With Sony opting to pull "The Interview" from theaters, a lot of people are wondering where they can get some good information about North Korea. Luckily for you, however, Michael Weilert MD has some great documentaries and books about North Korea for those who are interested in what may be one of the most bizarre countries out there.

1. Great Material About North
Korea
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2. Nothing to Envy, by Barbara Demick
This haunting non-
fiction book traces
the lives of six North
Koreans through
years of research and
interviews with
defectors.

3. North Korea’s Slave Labor Camps, Vice
Even if Vice isn’t for everybody, this is a dark and
fascinating documentary about Vice CEO Shane
Smith’s journey through Siberia to search for “off-
shored” North Korean labor camps.

4. The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam
Johnson
This Pulitzer Prize-winning
work of fiction was
praised by the Washington
Post for making North
Korea a real and riveting
place that’s hard to forget.

5. The Cleanest Race, by BR Myers
Myers examines the
ideology of the Korean
state, which borrows
from both communism
and the proto-fascist
traditions of Imperial
Japan. Its all-devouring
propaganda program not
only builds up a massive
myth behind the Kim
dynasty, but also plays
upon some strong racial
themes.

6. The Aquariums of Pyongyang, by Chol-
hwan Kang
In this book, Kang
tells the story of his
family’s 10-year
ordeal in a forced
labor camp in North
Korea.

7. The Game of Our Lives
This documentary takes a look at one of North Korea’s
prouder moments: the 1966 World Cup where their
relatively unknown soccer team took the other players by
storm to earn the respect of soccer fans around the world.