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
Newspeak commit thoughtcrime" (verb). The adjective is formed with the suffix "–ful" ("crimethinkful") and the adverb is formed with the suffix "–wise" ("crimethinkwise"). The few irregular-form words, such as "Minitrue" (Ministry of Truth), "Minipax" (Ministry of Peace), "Miniplenty" (Ministry of Plenty), and "Miniluv" (Ministry of Love) identify the government ministries of the Party. The superlative forms of words are formed with the addition of the positive prefix "plus–" ("plusgood") and with the negative prefix "un–" (ungood). To communicate a greater degree, either of negativity or of positivity, requires affixing the prefix "double" to the other two prefixes to the root word