Sunday, January 28, 2018

Pyongyang Olympics

Imagine that the US is hosting the Olympics and you are a Nazi concentration camp survivor. You risked your life to reach America. Then America begs the Nazis to send their athletes and musicians and cheerleading squad to the Olympics AND foots the bill with your tax money. Also, America abandons the Stars and Strips in favor of a neutral flag for the Olympics so that they can form joint teams with the Nazis. Maybe it would feel like a slap in the face? 

Defector Memoirs (and Hwang Jang-yop)

I’ve always wanted to compile a complete list of all the North Korean defector memoirs. There are currently 14 memoirs about defectors f...