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Defector Memoris and Testimonies - North Korean Defectors Looking into North Korea from Outside |
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Bribery, corruption and overweening power are ubiquitous in many areas of North Korean society, and today’s universities are no different. Instead of cultivating the ability of outstanding individuals, simple materialism rules supreme, teaching that money is the so..
[2010-02-26 13:45] |
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According to the meandering “Evaluation Report of the Central Committee of the Party to the 5th Convention of the Workers’ Party,” published as part of Kim Il Sung’s Selected Works, Vol. 25 by the Chosun Workers’ Party Publishing House in 1983, “The socialist..
[2010-02-25 17:38] |
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No matter how hard farmers worked, the only thing they ended up with was debt, not least because people stole grain from the farm. After harvest, children and even old people were mobilized to glean the fields. When there was no one watching, people cut ears of ric..
[2010-02-23 10:08] |
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In the late 1990s, after my mother left us, I lived with my father and older brother. Mother had gone across the border to make money, so father took care of us. When I was in elementary school, father worked on a farm. He was never once absent and worked very h..
[2010-02-18 14:57] |
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As predicted by experts on North Korea’s economy, since the authorities have yet to officially release state prices, the North Korean people are now surviving by bartering. A defector, who spoke with his family in North Hamkyung Province on Tuesday, reported the ne..
[2010-01-20 16:27] |
| Levels of drug-resistant tuberculosis in North Korea are on the increase, according to a prominent expert on the conditions surrounding the disease. Stephen Linton, the chairman of the Eugene Bell Foundation, announced last week that the number of patients with..
[2009-12-16 11:43] |
| In the words of Kim Young Soon (27), a defector who arrived in South Korea back in February this year, "It was only military training in words; half of it was labor exploitation." Moreover, "The children of officials or affluent parents would just play at home..
[2009-12-08 05:23] |
| The fourth time North Korea replaced its currency was in July, 1992. It was at a time when trading was not a regular sight in North Korean society, so we did not see much money. Only those people trading internationally in the border regions and cadres taking br..
[2009-12-03 00:56] |
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Traditionally the most burdensome, critical dietary preparation for a Korean winter is making kimchi. Obviously, North Korea is no exception. In northern provinces such as North Hamkyung, Yangkang, and Jagang, people bring in the radish during the middle of Oct..
[2009-11-18 17:34] |
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