Reddit mentions of Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country

In the discussion about this before people who survived a previous NK distro it said that after the observers confirmed the food was fairly passed out, the people left with their packages and down the road the military took the food back from them. Observers don't guarantee much and these sorts of governments don't change.

Story is covered on page 56 of this book:

http://books.google.com/books?id=_eNE5idqsM4C

http://www.amazon.com/Escaping-North-Korea-Defiance-Repressive/dp/0742556204

I bought Mike Kim's book Escaping North Korea after seeing that segment air and I must say I was extremely disappointed. The book seems very poorly constructed and he pushes the Christianity a little much for me. I recommend reading the 3 star and below ratings on Amazon, I wish I had before purchasing this book.

On the other hand, an extremely good book I read before reading Mike Kim's book was Aquariums of Pyongyang: 10 Years in a North Korean Gulag by Chol-hwan Kang. If you're interested in North Korea from the inside, especially the prison camps, this is the book to read.

For those who want to know more about the life of people of North Korea and what they to do escape to China http://www.escapingnorthkorea.com/ Amazon

Some people even return to NK to help their families.

Slave traders build houses, in China, just across the river from NK to capture people who try to sneak into china.

This book, it's a really easy read and I'm pretty sure there's a chapter discussing the military and how even they're severely abused