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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
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