The Ministry of Truth (book) Orwell's Ministries of "Nineteen Eighty-Four". "Publishers Weekly" wrote that "the rich, full-color images of North Korea's capital city Pyongyang captured by international photographers Munz and Nikol contain a surreal beauty, often monumental and sparsely populated, that inspires a vivid sense of isolation and uncertainty. ... This slim book provides rare glimpses into the 'world's first postmodern country,' each as illuminating for what it shows as for what it hides." The Ministry of Truth (book) The Ministry of Truth: Kim Jong-Il's North Korea () is a 2006 book by the Swiss writer Christian Kracht and the photographers Eva Munz and Lukas
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