Sunday 3 September 2017

''Without You, There Is No Us''.  How much I love Suki Kim for writing this utterly fascinating account of what it is like to live and work in North Korea.  She is a South Korean born American free-lance writer who spent two semesters working undercover, teaching the English
language to the sons of the elite of the ruling Workers'Party at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.  She took a huge risk in secretly recording and saving her impressions on USB sticks as to what is it like to function as a normal human being in the most oppressive, brutal, and isolated country in the world.
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