Every week we ask a North Korean your questions, giving you the chance to learn more about the country we know so little about.

This week’s question is:

In a previous column of yours you said your wife’s father was the richest man in her hometown. How do rich people in North Korea live?

Yes, that’s true. My wife’s father is known to be the man of the greatest fortune in her hometown. I had no knowledge of this until another North Korean from the same province told me. He said that he would even dub my wife’s father the