The Ministry of Truth: Kim Jong-Il's North Korea (‹See Tfd›German: Die totale Erinnerung. Kim Jong Ils Nordkorea) is a 2006 book by the Swiss writer Christian Kracht and the photographers Eva Munz and Lukas Nikol. It consists of photographs from North Korea's capital Pyongyang accompanied by quotations from Kim Jong Il's book on film theory, On the Art of the Cinema. In his introduction, Kracht compares the country of North Korea to a film set where the government directs a simulation of a thriving nation. The book was published in English on 1 October 2007 through Feral House. The title is a reference to George Orwell's Ministries of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Source: Wikipedia (en)