![]() ![]() ![]() If her notes had been discovered, she almost certainly would have been accused of espionage and faced imprisonment in the country’s terrifying labor camps. ![]() Incredibly, however, neither Kim’s North Korean minders nor the Christian missionaries who founded and run PUST realized that she was there undercover to engage in some of history’s riskiest investigative journalism.Īlthough all of PUST’s staff was kept under constant surveillance, Kim kept notes and documents on hidden USB sticks and her camera’s SIM card. Kim had visited North Korea several times before and had written about her experiences for Harper’s Magazine and the New York Review of Books. at age 13, spent much of 2011 teaching English to children of North Korea’s elite at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. Kim, who was born in South Korea and moved to the U.S. One of the extremely rare exceptions is novelist and journalist Suki Kim. ![]() Few outsiders have had intimate contact with North Korean society, and even fewer are in a position to talk about it. For 70 years it’s been sealed off from the rest of the world to a degree hard to comprehend, especially at a time when people in Buenos Aires need just one click to share cat videos shot in Kuala Lumpur. The most alarming aspect of North Korea’s latest nuclear test, and the larger standoff with the U.S., is how little is known about how North Korea truly functions. ![]()
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