During Kim Jong Il’s final year, 2011, Suki Kim went undercover in North Korea to infiltrate and understand a world built on secrecy and lies. Her investigations and insights form the fascinating New York Times bestselling non-fiction Without You, There Is No Us.
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Open in MapsSuki Kim is a South Korean-born, American novelist and investigative journalist and the only writer ever to go live undercover in North Korea. Kim’s recent New York Times-bestselling literary nonfiction book, Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite chronicles her six months undercover living amongst the future leaders of North Korea during the final six months of Kim Jong-il’s reign. Her first novel, The Interpreter, was a finalist for a PEN Hemingway Prize, and her nonfiction has appeared in New York Times, Harper’s, New York Review of Books, and The New Republic, where she is a contributing editor. Kim has been featured on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria’s GPS and Christiane Amanpour Show and Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, and her 2015 TED Talk has since drawn millions of viewers online.
