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Is it cold in here?:
"The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future"
Victor Cha

This adds to the literature in giving a detailed history of diplomatic efforts and gives informed opinion about the motives of the NK leadership, but isn't about the internals of NK (except for an interesting list of coup attempts, about which he's oddly confident of details that other sources consider uncertain).

He describes a growing belief among involved parties that the only solution is reunification.

LTK:
The Flinch, a free kindle book. I like books that tell me something about myself, even more when they're not trying to. I don't like books that tell me something about myself that I already knew, even less when they're trying to. This book falls in the latter category. Though it seems like a good excercise of free will. I wouldn't recommend it to myself, so I don't feel like I can recommend it to anybody else, but if you want to read it, you can download it from Amazon for free.

Lines:
Re: Ender's Game conversation...I didn't particularly care for Ender's Game. I can't tell you why exactly, because it's been a while, but would I probably like Ender's Shadow better? Or should I just try different sci-fi?

The first three books I've got lined up to read are Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Botany of Desire, and Last Child in the Woods. I've been meaning to read Philip K. Dick for aaaaaaaages and I managed to snag a copy at Half Price Books. (I've seen all the movies based off of his works, I think it's high time to actually READ them.) The other two I had the intention of reading while I was working on my thesis (I did manage to read a bit of Last Child in the Woods - it was good), but, ha, I never had time because I was swimming in articles and writing. So yeah. Here's hoping I manage to find time now that I'm trying to re/decorate a house and here's hoping I can manage to pull myself away from Diablo III when I'm not doing house stuff.

Elysiana:
Linds, I think it depends on what you didn't like about Ender's Game :) I know a lot of people couldn't stand Ender's character and that's part of why they preferred Ender's Shadow. I don't think I could pinpoint why I prefer it to Ender's Game; I just found Bean to be a more enjoyable character, and part of it may have been that it filled in a lot of the storyline of Ender's Game - if I'd read ES first, maybe I would have preferred EG. If you don't care for OSC's writing, though, none of the books will really appeal to you, most likely.

Lines:
It wasn't the writing, I enjoyed the writing. I think it was all of the violence centered around children that left me a little uneasy. Which mostly centered around Ender, so he was probably the problem for me. I do remember liking Bean, so maybe I'll give it a shot.

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