“Ask a North Korean” is an NK News series featuring interviews with and columns by North Korean defectors, most of whom left the DPRK within the last few years.

Readers may submit their questions for defectors by emailing [email protected] and including their first name and city of residence.

Today’s question is about how North Koreans consume state propaganda.

Sersong Han — who was born and raised in North Korea and lived there until he defected in 2014 — writes about designated times to read state media at work, the monotony of most propaganda and the DPRK TV channel that he