Peter Hayes: North Korea: The Mystery, Glenn Kessler, The Register-Guard – USA, 2007-01-07
In fact, North Korea expert Peter Hayes – the executive director of the research group Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development – described the novel as “the best unclassified account of how North Korea works and why it has survived all these years when the rest of the communist world capitulated to the global market a decade ago.”