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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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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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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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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer’s sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.
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In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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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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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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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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