This was always the case with North Korea. It was like the bad boyfriend whose presence could never be depended on, so you always had to seize the opportunity to spend time with him when he made himse...
They were always comparing themselves to the outside world, which none of them had ever seen, declaring themselves the best. This insistence on best seemed strangely childlike, and the words best and...
As for unmarried women, I have no idea where they are buried. For a very long time, in Korea, no one talked about them.)
You will need to pay for the gas. Euros, Chinese renminbi, and U.S. dollars will be accepted, but the North Korean won is used only at Potonggang Department Store or at Tongil Market.
There it is again, the mantra if only. I am always made aware of the alternative universe where things turned out differently, in which lives were saved. I am used to the mantra. For immigrants, regre...
Lesson began—more of a get-to-know-you
Even teaching them to write an essay turned out to be dangerous, since the idea of coming up with your own thesis and making an argument based on evidence doesn’t exist in North Korea.
For those of us raised by mothers and fathers who experienced such trauma firsthand, it is impossible not to continue this remembering. I