“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 and when North Koreans can move to a new home.

Jin — who was born and raised in North Korea and lived there until she defected in 2014 — writes about the restrictions on changing residence, why multiple family generations often live in the same house and