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A rare image of a North Korean labor camp, taken from a piece of film shot in North Korea and revealed to the world in 2004.
Kim yu kyung biography of mahatma
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In May 2014, Bandi (반디), an anonymous (to us) member of the North Korean state-run union of writers, published the book Gobal (고발, meaning “accusation”) in South Korea.
It thus became the first work by a writer still living in North Korea to be smuggled out and published in a third country against the wishes of the DPRK government. Intrigued, I commissioned Robert Lauler to write a review of the exciting new short story collection for Daily NK, my employer at the time.
Lauler’s conclusion was that while it is right for questions to linger over the provenance of Bandi’s work, his or her stories nevertheless “contain deep truths about North Korean society, and add much to the growing literature on that country’s painful reality.”
If that is the role of this strand of literature then it is ou