New America Nyc

Inside the secretive and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young boy's normal life. But when he was five, disaster struck: the first wave of the Great Famine killed millions, including his father, and forced the rest of his family to desperate escape routes into China. Alone in the streets, he had nothing but his street-hardened instincts for survival.But through the eventual support of an underground network of activists who kept him hidden from authorities, Kim eventually made his way through the American consulate in Shenyang and became one of just a handful of North Koreans brought to the U.S. as refugees.Joseph Kim's Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America provides a vivid narrative of resilience. In a country where most have never heard of Facebook or Google and where details of social and cultural life are largely unknown, the book serves as an important first-hand account of atrocities committed within North Korea and hidden from the West and most o