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
The Other Side of Truth It further describes the writing as "gripping, powerful and evocative". "The Other Side of Truth" was silver runner up for the 2000 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, was named an International Board on Books for Young People Honour Book in 2002, and won the 2002 Jane Addams Children's Book Award. The novel refers to the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and other journalists, which caused an international outcry in 1995. It is set in the immediate aftermath of those executions. Although in the early twenty-first century the military regime no longer controls the country, media rights body Reporters Without Borders says Nigeria