Welcome back to the NK News feature, “Ask a North Korean!”

After a brief hiatus our feature that gives readers an opportunity to send in questions to North Koreans is back, with two new writers.

Mina is a female who left the north-east of North Korea in 2010 and Ji Min is a male who left Pyongyang in 2006.

Together, we hope their two perspectives will help shed light on day-to-day life in North Korea. We re-start the feature today with introductions from our new writers to get you acquainted with their background. Ji Min tells his story…

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