North Korea never fails to amaze. It is the only country that has managed to fool all its people for all the time and has silenced them so completely even in this age of internet explosion. Anjaly Thomas confirms this in her book There are No Gods in North Korea. She visited that country for five days, under considerable personal risk. She has made an honest attempt to present the facts about North Korea without embellishment.
About the people she says, ‘It seemed everyone had their own version of their country and one couldn’t blame them for their beliefs. Truth be told, how were they to know otherwise? Let us not argue that they could read, watch TV or use the internet, because none of this was an option.’ About her own trip she says that when she arrived there she wondered, ‘Is this really happening? Why am I here? Am I actually here?’ She adds that even by the time one is ready to leave one may not have found all the answers. DPRK (official name for North Korea) continues to haunt and amaze you. That’s the kind of enigma North Korea is.