Just when Areum, daughter of a privileged family in the totalitarian state of Choson (North Korea), thought she was free from her personal prison, her world collapses around her as her family is taken away in the middle of the night to a hell-like camp in the mountains where people who have strayed from the righteous path are brutally re-educated through blood, sweat, tears and starvation.

There she has to fight for survival together with the family she hates and is forced to re-evaluate every aspect of her life until then: her deep resentment toward her twin sister; her view of her father in the face of mounting evidence that he's a traitor with the blood of millions of fellow countrymen on his hands; and even her love and affection for the Great General - the eternal savior and protector of Choson, whom she had always considered her true father.

"The Demon of Yodok" is the introduction to the five-part Juche Saga (Not standalone).

IMPORTANT NOTE: This new edition of "The Demon of Yodok" has merged the content of what until March 2021 were two separate books, i.e. "Part One - The Demon of Yodok" and "Part Two - The Sufferings of the Strayed". The cover has been updated to make the distinction clearer.