{"product":{"product_id":"8965236509","title":"Password of the Third Floor Secretary Room","price":"25.0","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/511uv6X2H8L._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/8965236509"},"comments":[{"body":"Great idea! I would love to read this.\r\n\r\nI hope someone does this for Thae Yong-ho's [\"Cryptography from the Third-floor Secretariat\"](https://www.amazon.com/Password-Third-Floor-Secretary-Room/dp/8965236509) as well. The absence of a translation is even more perplexing since the author speaks near-perfect English.","subreddit_name":"northkorea","author":"kosmoilektronio"},{"body":"Thanks! Demick's has been on my list for a while, and I was unaware of Kang's book. I'd like to read that too.\r\n\r\nI don't expect or want something which entirely avoids the politics (as you said, likely impossible) or glosses over the atrocities and standard of living problems. But I'm not looking for a work bathed on self-righteous tears of outrage either. Sure, I hate the North Korean government. I feel terrible for the people there. But I don't need further macabre descriptions of what's going on there, I already read [Escape from Camp 14](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk). I'm looking for something which takes an unsentimental approach to their daily lives.\r\n\r\nBy the way, why the %$%# has no one translated Thae Yong-ho's [Cryptography of the Third Floor Secretariat](https://www.amazon.com/Password-Third-Floor-Secretary-Room/dp/8965236509) yet? \r\n\r\nAnyway, thanks again for the recommendations!","subreddit_name":"northkorea","author":"kosmoilektronio"}]}