And Fiction by North Koreans
So, um, North Korea has been in the news a lot lately. Now might be a good time to read some of their fiction. However, there really isn’t a lot of it that is available to the world outside North Korea. Until recently, there hasn’t been any unauthorized work making its way out of the country, which is exceptionally chilling, given that unauthorized fiction tends to find its way out of all authoritarian regimes. (People need to tell their stories.) However, this March saw the U.S.