March 29, 2024
Ask A North Korean

The Good Parts To Life In North Korea

Welcome back to our "Ask a North Korean" feature.  The initial response to Jae-young's first reply was fantastic and we received lots of great questions.  Jae-young is now working on answering as many as possible and moving forward we'll be publishing two responses per week, on Tuesday's and Friday's.  So if you have a question for her, please get in touch and send us your questions. Over now to reader Maxwell B:

Question: Was there anything good or positive about living in North Korea? All we hear about are the bad things. Do any of the DPRK’s citizens benefit from the state?

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