![]() ![]() What Can Be Learned from this Book? Uh huh. By focusing on North Korea’s most elite citizens, as opposed to the poor rural workers and prison camp survivors found in most books about the country, Kim’s story helped me to fill some gaps in my own understanding. Not surprisingly, they are true believers and devout regime loyalists – the kind of people who support what the propaganda is saying. The students Suki Kim teaches are young men who actually benefit from North Korea’s status quo. Without You, There is No Us provides a surprising level of insight into these questions. How does a country end up with statues, pictures, and paintings of its leaders at every turn? And don’t the people ever get tired of it all? (Remember this?) I’ve read a little bit of everything about it, but I’m especially interested in the country’s intense level of propaganda. North Korea is one of those subjects that I just can’t seem to get enough of. This book is a memoir of her experiences. The school is called the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology ( PUST), and Korean-American Suki Kim was a teacher there in 2011. This probably sounds a little far-fetched – Christians teaching English in North Korea? – but it’s true. There’s a school on the outskirts of Pyongyang, North Korea, where evangelical Christians teach an all-English curriculum to the sons of the country’s elite. ![]()
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