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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." 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.

A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “superb and important” (The New York Times Book Review) saga of America’s wartime chief executives “Fascinating and heartbreaking . . . timely . . . Beschloss’s broad scope lets you draw important...

A "close-up look at the cloistered country" (USA Today), See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen's "probing" and "artful" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim...

"Korean Mother Awaits a Son's Deportation to Confess Her 'Unforgivable Sin'" is from the November 16, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater state" even as it pays little more than lip service to the wellbeing of the overwhelming majority.

"North Korean Defector Surfaces in Pyongyang, Saying He Tried to Abduct Orphans" is from the July 15, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Corey M. Snow.

"President Park Geun-Hye Was Accomplice in Extortion, South Korean Prosecutors Say" is from the November 20, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"South Koreans Rally in Largest Protest in Decades to Demand President's Ouster" is from the November 12, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"Kim Jong Un Seeks to Cement Power at First North Korean Congress in 36 Years" is from the May 04, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"A Presidential Friendship Has Many South Koreans Crying Foul" is from the October 27, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Lotte Executive Found Dead amid South Korean Corruption Inquiry" is from the August 26, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"South Korean Families Watch Ferry's Salvaging, Hoping the Truth Surfaces" is from the June 11, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"Cambodia's New Angkor Museum, Created by a North Korean Art Factory" is from the Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Amy Qin and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"A South Korean Copy of Snapchat Takes off in Asia" is from the July 05, 2016 Technology section of The New York Times. It was written by Paul Mozur and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"North Korean Missile Tested Again but Fails, South Says" is from the October 16, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

The former chief of a South Korean subsidiary of the British consumer goods company Reckitt Benckiser was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison over disinfectants that have been blamed for scores of deaths in the country.

"Ex-Chief of South Korean Unit Jailed Over Disinfectant Deaths" is from the January 06, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

A South Korean businessman was strangled at the headquarters of the Philippine National Police last year by officers who later extorted ransom money from his family under the pretense that he was alive, the Philippine Department of Justice said Thursday.

"Philippine Police Are Accused of Killing South Korean Businessman" is from the January 19, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Felipe Villamor and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"South Korean Opposition Vows to Impeach Park Geun-Hye Next Week" is from the December 02, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Corey M. Snow.

"South Korean Parliament Votes to Impeach President Park Geun-hye" is from the December 9, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Caroline Miller.