Welcome back to Ask a North Korean, where NK News readers like yourself ask questions to and have them answered by our North Korean writers.

This time our question comes from Cayla, who says she “was wondering what a speaker of the North Korean dialect perceives as the largest differences [between the North and South Korean dialects].”

Just like many other countries and regions, there are different dialects and accents all across the Korean peninsula. And, due to over 70 years of separation, ‘North Korean Korean’ and ‘South Korean Korean’ have ended up evolving in very different ways.

Sometimes even native