About the Author
Tae-il Shim
Tae-il Shim is a pseudonym for a North Korean defector writer. He left the DPRK in 2018, and now resides in South Korea.
A big annyeonghaseyo and hwanyeonghamnida, NK News readers! Welcome back to Ask a North Korean, where anyone can email their questions about life in North Korea to us and have them answered by our very own defector writers.
This week's topic is about how disabled people are treated in the DPRK.