Orphan masters son: Fact or Fiction?

    The book "The Orphan Masters Son" by Adam Johnson seems to be complete fiction. Unfortunately, most of the things that happen in the book are occurring events in North Korea.
    In the book many things happen that seem to be so crazy that it couldn't possibly be real. Think again. Many of the things that happen in the book are not fiction. Even though the book is fiction, it uses examples of things that have happened in North Korea. The thing I found craziest was when Jun Do lets the shark bite his arm in order to save his crew from the wrath of the North Korean Government. When the second mate of the fishing boat that Jun DO was on runs away, The crew had to come up with a story that the government would believe that the second mate had died instead of running away. When a person runs away from Korea, their family and friends are all killed or put into prison on suspicions of plotting against the government.
    Soon after the incident of the Second Mate running away, Jun Do is interrogated. The way of interrogation is to beat the story out of Jun DO. When Jun DO confesses that the second mate ran away, the interrogator stops. Then they let Jun Do go and the issue is not brought up again. This seems very weird because Jun Do confesses to what they consider to be a crime, but because he has an alternate story, they deem him a national hero so that they can blame the Americans for what happened.

    In the middle of the book Jun Do kills the North Koreans karate champion, Commander Ga, in a prison mine. Soon after, Jun Do finds himself at the house of Sun Moon, when the former Commander Ga lived. Jun DO must now assume the life of Commander Ga, and subsequently becomes Commander Ga. Commander Ga was not a liked person by Kim Jong-Un so he was never faced with being charged for any crime. As Weird as it is, there are cases where this happens in North Korea. If a man kills another man, and then takes his life and continues to do what the man before him did, he will not be punished. In the book it says that the North Koreans must endure what the have to in order to make the country better. This is interpreted to mean that the family and friends of the past man must accept the new person to be who he says he is. This is probably the weirdest thing to happen in the entire book.
     The only other even that could possibly be weirder is at end of the book when jun Do is charged for killing Sun Moon. Kim Jong-Un loved Sun Moon so now there are charges to be faced. Jun Do, "Commander Ga", is sent to the interrogators known as the Pubyok. The Pubyok have the weirdest ways of interrogation on the face of the earth. They try to get the persons entire life story and write it in a book. They call it their biography. The way that they get the person to talk is either through a lobotomy, or through electrocution. At the very end of the book, there is a scene where Jun Do, and his interrogator, who realizes that what they are doing is wrong, electrocute them selves. It is very weird but the Pubyok really do exist.
    North Korea is an extremely secretive state but the things that we do know about them are extremely odd.