Without You There Is No Us
by Suki Kim
Teaching English to Pyongyang's elite. Undercover.
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you want to understand North Korea through the young men being groomed to perpetuate it
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Kim — a Korean American journalist — went undercover as an English teacher at an elite Pyongyang university, spending months with the sons of the North Korean ruling class. She was the closest any outsider has gotten to the regime's future. What she found was a group of young men who were completely cut off from reality, utterly loyal, and genuinely human — capable of kindness and curiosity inside a system designed to prevent both. The most intimate visitor dispatch from inside North Korea ever written. She published it knowing it would likely mean she could never return.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- North Korea • East Asia
- Voice
- An outside perspective on North Korea
- Topics
- north korea
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