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Banned and restricted books in North Korea
6 titles have been banned or restricted in North Korea, recorded across 6 dated, source-cited events, most often for political content.
Titles
6
Ban events
6
Top reason
Political content
Decades active
2
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| Escape from Camp 14 | Blaine Harden | 2012 | 1 |
| The Girl with Seven Names | Hyeonseo Lee | 2015 | 1 |
| The Bible | — | 1455 | 1 |
| The Accusation | Bandi | 2014 | 1 |
| The Red Years | Bandi | 2018 | 1 |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 1936 | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Political content
- 6
- Religious / blasphemy
- 1
By decade
1940s1
2010s5
Documented bans
All 6 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
The Red Years2018
Gone with the Wind2018
The Girl with Seven Names2015
The Accusation2014
Escape from Camp 142012
The Bible1948
Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.