In his new book, Witness to North Korea: Three Years on the Ground in the DPRK, former U.N. official Jerome Sauvage offers a rare firsthand account of working inside one of the world’s most isolated countries. Drawing on his posting in Pyongyang from 2009 to 2013, Sauvage recounts the practical, political and human difficulties of delivering development assistance in a state deeply wary of foreign involvement. His introduction to North Korea was abrupt. An experienced U.N. Development Program (UNDP) official whose previous postings included Vietnam and Cambodia, he flew from China on a Russian Tupolev Tu-24 with his spouse,