I think the best thing about this book is that it provides us with a chance to get some information about what life is like in North Korea. Of course, while Guy Delisle worked there he was kept mostly cloistered, so the book gives us very little direct information about the lives of North Koreans. Still, the enforced distance between Koreans and foreigners is very telling. Unfortunately, Delisle is sometimes contemptuous of North Koreans because they appear to accept their or even love their dictator. His smugness is a real downer, and I couldn’t help but compare him with someone like Joe Sacco, whose journalistic memoirs are much more nuanced.