What do we know about North Korea? Almost nothing. And not because this is the most closed country in the world, but because in reality everything is not as we used to think. The authors of this book were able to see how rapidly the DPRK is changing today and told in an accessible language the sensational truth about the everyday life of this country. — Can you get a death sentence for wearing tight jeans? — For calling China from an illegal mobile phone, can you get a death sentence? In fact, wealthy “northerners” wear fashionable clothes and call relatives in neighboring countries who have fled the country. And the Pyongyang “golden youth” discusses South Korean gangster sagas and boasts to girls about smartphones bought on the black market. The book by Tudor and Pearson breaks the stereotypical and caricatured image of North Korea that has formed over decades in the mass consciousness. — How ordinary North Koreans actually live today and party functionaries?—What changes is the DPRK society experiencing and how do they affect the citizens of this country?—Will the North Korean “Iron Curtain” fall as a result of these changes? The book is published under a scientific editorship and with a foreword by a leading Korean scholar, Professor A.N. Lankova.