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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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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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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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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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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
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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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Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
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Writing is hard work, and if anything’s true about the process, it’s that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper.
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