About the Author
Adam Cathcart
Adam Cathcart is a lecturer in history at the University of Leeds and the editor of Sino-NK.
Certain messages get repeated so often with respect to North Korea that to write them risks little disagreement. Among these is the statement: "North Korea should be flooded with outside information."
Defector memoirs recount, with greater and lesser degrees of emotion, the importance that outside information has had for individuals in need of a spark of consciousness of the world beyond the rigid physical and ideological boundaries of the DPRK.