This may not sound like summer reading material but it’s certainly very timely and is actually a pretty quick read. The author was a correspondent for the Economist and this is taken from a column called “Ask a North Korean.” His goal is to humanize North Korea and show that there are real people living “normal” lives there. Sadly, it almost more illustrates how people can learn to live such lives and come to see all they have to endure as “normal.”
–Shelley Regimbal, The Duck Store, Eugene, OR
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