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Title Page -- Epigraph -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1: North Koreans dont eat grass (or do they?) -- 2: Women: take care of your husbands hairstyle -- 3: How to make a North Korean win the marathon -- 4: Bowing to the tyrants statues -- 5: Firing missiles while the people starve -- 6: Expat slaves -- 7: Access to this information is temporarily unavailable -- 8: Cool kids with Molotov cocktails -- 9: Those from the wrong class stand in the back row -- 10: State-sponsored crime -- 11: Red-eyed, medal-encrusted generals -- 12: What do you give a tyrant who has everything? -- 13: The Leaders love their flowers -- 14: Hiding memory cards in bread rolls -- Annexe Principles for Unitary Ideology of 1974 -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright.

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A devastating report by the Commission of Inquiry established by the United Nations Human Rights Council concluded that the North Korea government has committed systematic human right abuses at a scale without parallel in the contemporary world including extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence.

H UMAN R IGHTS W ATCH 2015

To the 25.6 million prisoners in North Korea,
who one day will be free.

And to E., and great and wonderful things.

CONTENTS

N orth Korea has a political system as evil as any the world has ever seen. It has installed concentration camps where people are sent to work until they die. It has a policy that led to a famine which may have killed millions and has had long-term health effects on many more. And it permits the murder of anyone who seems to oppose the regime in any way.

Beyond the border, it is easy to see the Kim family, especially Kim Jong-un, as simply comic. His funny haircut, the absurd language and the extraordinarily blatant propaganda make it difficult for the rest of the world to take the sheer evil of the man and his government seriously. The total control of peoples lives and the cult-like status of the Kim family in North Korea, however, create prime conditions for the government to continue their tyrannical rule, while the erratic approach to foreign affairs, combined with the threat of nuclear war, enables them to squeeze money and supplies from foreign governments not that any of it ever reaches the poverty-stricken civilians who so desperately need it.

In JP Florus excellent travel diary, he exposes the horrifying extent of the Kims brainwashing of their people. He observes (and, at the behest of his guides, reluctantly participates in) bowing to statues of the Kims and overhears instructions that saving a picture of the Kims from a burning building is more important than rescuing a child. Before visiting the embalmed body of Kim Ilsung who, although dead, remains the eternal President of North Korea the tour guide, who is more like a prison guard, checks every item of clothing, including a used Kleenex, to make sure that visitors are sufficiently respectfully dressed to meet the corpse.

The whole organised trip is a propaganda exercise, an effort of the minders to sell the delights of North Korea; yet the surreal totalitarianism present in all aspects of the visit can do little else but instill fear and alarm in the group. The residents, however, must accept the situation or risk not only their own liberty, but that of three generations of their family. This is where JP Florus book is so well constructed. He draws out from the tourist experience the brutality of the Kims regime, and clarifies the many points where invented history diverts from the bleak reality. The population is fed on lies that are accepted because they are forbidden any access to sources of the truth. Smuggling DVDs from China is punishable by a machine-gun firing squad, and anyone who expresses even remote disdain for the regime just disappears.

While it is easy to laugh at this fat little man in a boiler suit, as Jeremy Paxman so memorably put it, underestimating his depravity goes some way to cover up the horrific goings-on in North Korea. The Wests assumption that he is mad has enabled him to play the West for fools; and even the Chinese government have been carried along by the manipulation of these so-called Great Leaders of North Korea.

It would be easy for a travel book about North Korea to be simply voyeuristic, but this is not the case here. JP Floru goes to great lengths to reveal the shocking reality of a country terrorised by its leader, offering the West much-needed insight into the atrocities that occur when the truth is rewritten beyond recognition.

Hon. Jacob Rees-MoggMP

I f I use the real names of the people I met in North Korea, they will not be seen again. And neither will their other halves. Nor their children. Nor their parents. Nor their brothers and sisters. That is how things work down there. I dont think it was particularly wise to put my own name on this book.

North Korea is the only country in the world where the rulers are not only a dynasty, but are also venerated as Gods. North Koreans are made to bow to the statues of their leaders for fear of being sent to a labour camp, and the faades of all public buildings carry gigantic photos of the Great Leaders. Children as young as six are taught in school to hate Americans, the Japanese and whoever else is singled out as a class enemy. During the famine in the late 1990s, international food aid was kept back for the elite and the army while the population was reduced to munching tree bark. The regime continues to build up its nuclear missile programme at great expense while the population starves. The current Great Leader, Kim Jong-un, announces his imminent annihilation of South Korea, the United States and Japan with jocular regularity. There are no human rights. The Western Gregorian calendar has been replaced by the Juche calendar, in which 1912, the year President Kim Il-sung was born, is Year One.

Thankfully, the regime also provides some relative comic relief. In January, the Pyongyang Times claimed that North Koreans had discovered hangover-free alcohol that exudes national flavour without dampening your national fervour in the morning, and the year before, NK News announced that medicines containing extracts from the insam plant could cure SARS and AIDS.

I went to North Korea to run the Pyongyang marathon. Three friends were running it and had asked me to come along. I said yes because travelling to the moon is not available yet. Then I realised they were going for only three days, and that the marathon trip would not include a visit to the Kims Mausoleum, so I switched to a nine-day tour instead. I also decided not to run the marathon myself, but to go along as a mere spectator. I did not want to risk blisters at the start of a tour; and North Korea is not a place where you want to end up in hospital.

Those who know me well all expected me to get into trouble with the authorities. Please dont say or do anything you will regret, my mother begged me. My friend John was nearly in tears, while Jimmy promised he would set up the Free JP Campaign.

It wasnt the best of times to visit the shifty kid in the class, since North Korean leader Kim Jong-un chose this precise moment to test a few ballistic missiles. Most just flopped into the sea as per usual, but Kim called it a great triumph and President Obama promptly signed new sanctions to punish the sanctions-infested pariah state. A few weeks before I left, 21-year-old American student Otto Warmbier was arrested for pinching a propaganda poster from the hotel where we were going to stay. His sentence of fifteen years hard labour caused consternation the world over.

The icing on the cake was Kim Jong-uns announcement a few days before my departure that a new famine was coming (after his announcement, he attended a 1,000-chefs cooking competition). My mother was now calling me every day to dissuade me from going, but my marathon friends and I just made a last-minute dash to the supermarket to fill all the remaining nooks and crannies with chocolate and nutritious bars.

I had not set out to write a book. But even as little as nine days in North Korea gave me such a tsunami of material that I could not resist the challenge.

I f you are arrested, there is nothing we can do for you, the guidelines from the British Embassy laconically stated. Their advice was hidden in the ten pages of dos and donts that we received from the travel agency in Beijing.

That was not the end of it. We spent the entire morning of our arrival in Pyongyang receiving an even more extensive briefing about the rules.

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