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The world is bigger now : an American journalist's release from captivity in North Korea-- a remarkable story of faith, family, and forgiveness / Euna Lee with Lisa Dickey.

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Broadway Books, c2010.

Lee, Euna -- Captivity, 2009.

Hostages -- Korea (North)

Journalists -- Korea (North)

Americans -- Korea (North)

Journalists -- United States -- Biography.

Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 1994-

306 p. ; 22 cm.

Our lives before, and a story that mattered -- No middle ground -- A foot on each side -- Prisoner's dilemma -- Getting to Pyongyang -- Endurance -- Our day in court -- A new kind of waiting -- Home at last.

On March 17, 2009, the author and her Current TV colleague Laura Ling were working on a documentary about the desperate lives of North Koreans fleeing their homeland for a chance at freedom when they were violently apprehended by North Korean soldiers. Imprisoned just 112 miles from where Lee was born and where her parents still live in Seoul, South Korea, she was branded as a betrayer of her Korean blood by her North Korean captors. After representing herself in her trial before North Korea's highest court, she received a sentence of twelve years of hard labor in the country's notorious prison camps, leading her to fear she might not ever see her husband and daughter again. This book draws us deep into her life before and after this experience: what led to her arrival in North Korea, her efforts to survive the agonizing months of detainment, and how she and her fellow captive, Ling, were finally released thanks to the efforts of many individuals, including Bill Clinton. She explains in unforgettable detail what it was like to lose, and then miraculously regain, life as she knew it.

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