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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

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But, in North Korea, it’s just the opposite. There’s one story. It’s written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters.
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Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you’ve taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you’ll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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All the human actions we think of as essential to a character – had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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Where we are from… [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro.
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Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down!
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners.
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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