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: Many activists say that sending more outside information into North Korea could help open up the country, stimulating rebellion against the state, mass defections, or some other event that shifts the power away from the regime. Do you agree with this? Is information ‘the answer?’ Or do people already know a lot about the outside world?
It took a couple of decades for ordinary North Koreans
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: Many activists say that sending more outside information into North Korea could help open up the country, stimulating rebellion against the state, mass defections, or some other event that shifts the power away from the regime. Do you agree with this? Is information 'the answer?' Or do people already know a lot about the outside world?
Jinhyok Park joined NK News' Ask a North Korean contributors in spring 2016, and has education and living experiences in Pyongyang, North Korea and Washington, D.C. He is in his late 30s and married to a fellow North Korean defector. He came to U.S. in 2011 and is studying at a U.S. college. He can be reached at [email protected].