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    Ask a North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation
    Ask a North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation
    Ask a North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation
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    Ask a North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation

    Written by Daniel Tudor and Andrei Lankov

    Narrated by P.J. Ochlan and Greta Jung

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    Understanding North Korean Through the Eyes of Defectors.

    The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these fascinating interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide authentic firsthand testimonies about what is happening inside the "Hermit Kingdom."

    North Korean contributors to this book include:

    • "Seong" who came to South Korea after dropping out during his final year of his university. He is now training to be an elementary school teacher.
    • "Kang" who left North Korea in 2005. He now lives in London, England.
    • "Cheol" who was from South Hamgyeong in North Korea and is now a second-year university student in Seoul.
    • "Park" worked and studied in Pyongyang before defecting to the U.S. in 2011. He is now studying at a U.S. college.
    This book sheds critical light on all aspects of North Korean politics and society and shows that even in the world's most authoritarian regime, life goes on in ways that are very different from what you may think.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 20, 2018
    ISBN9781543685817
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    Daniel Tudor

    Daniel Tudor is from Manchester, England, and graduated with a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University. He has lived in Seoul, Korea, for many years, and served as The Economist’s Korea Correspondent from 2010-2013. His first book, Korea: The Impossible Country, received high praise and has also been translated into Korean, Chinese, Polish, and Thai. Daniel is a regular columnist for a Korean newspaper, the Joongang Ilbo, and has commented on Korea-related topics many times for the BBC, Al Jazeera, and others. He is also co-founder of The Booth, a small chain of craft beer pubs.

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    • 5/5
      What a great way to connect with the world most of us will never know especially here in the United States! I do think of the young people need to be able to differentiate between corporate greed and capitalism. The dictators have programmed everyone to believe that industry and hard work paying off is bad.. when it’s just a human right to be able to provide for your family and have food on the table. Young people need to understand that the countries that are doing well give people an opportunity to work and earn money rather than to pretend that the government will provide. The North Korean people can teach us so much. They do not have the “right kind” of socialism. If any North Koreans are reading this, please come to America and share a country with me. You only get one life.
    • 5/5
      Very interesting book, lots of snippets of what life in North Korea is like, told by North Koreans themselves. Would heartily recommend.
    • 5/5
      Beautiful book. The interviews are heartwarming. Highly recommend this book.