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No it's not.
Thou shalt not attempt to humanize the citizen of the authoritarian, human-rights-violating enemy state.
I do not understand what you're saying.
My doomed career as a North Korean novelist
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thou shalt not attempt to humanize the citizen of the authoritarian, human-rights-violating enemy state.
I do not understand what you're saying.
I'm satirizing the Western industry of dehumanizing/patronizing North Koreans. They are human beings just like us, even if our governments hate each other.
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#25It's always fascinating to hear about the cultural structures within North Korea. The image in my head is one where 5% are comfortable party officials and 95% are starving labourers. Of course that's not true: there are intellectuals and scientists in the middle, like in any other society. A related article was posted a few months ago regarding North Korean sci-fi. Also fascinating! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
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Ok serious question, what is it about North Korea that causes a subset of HN commenters to leap to it's defense? Russia, China, Iran, etc receive a similar treatment sometimes but never to nearly the degree NK does, what's with that?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do not understand what you're saying.
I'm satirizing the Western industry of dehumanizing/patronizing North Koreans. They are human beings just like us, even if our governments hate each other.
They are human beings just like us. That doesn't make their society just like any other society.
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#27Damn, I wanted to read more. Felt like the article received a brutal snip from the editor there.
you might like "Without You There Is No Us," a memoir by a foreign national hired to work at a boarding school for the children of the NK party elite
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#28I wish I could read the rest of the memoir, alas I do not speak Japanese. I'm unable to determine if the rest of it was published somewhere.
I mean, it's published, 跳べない蛙, you can buy it on Amazon or wherever. But in Japanese.
Can ChatGPT translate a whole book now? Without too much inconvenience
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Ok serious question, what is it about North Korea that causes a subset of HN commenters to leap to it's defense? Russia, China, Iran, etc receive a similar treatment sometimes but never to nearly the degree NK does, what's with that?
Practically everything you read on the western media about NK is completely made up. It's a country with a seemingly endless supply of fan fiction!
My favourite kind of fan fiction about NK is... let me think... ah yes, when Kim Jong Un has had some family member executed... only for them to reappear a few months later.
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#30Reading this brought back a vivid memory of listening to Voice of Korea about 20 years ago. I had a shortwave receiver in my Honda Civic - a Sony AM/FM/shortwave/cassette that was a drop-in replacement for the factory radio. On the way to work at Adobe in San Jose one day, I tuned in North Korea's English-language broadcast beamed to North America. One news announcement stuck in my mind so vividly that I remember it…
Hard to disagree. Am curious to see what they found. I imagine most powerful/manipulative peoples brains are shaped differently and excel in ways we mere mortals don’t necessarily consider.