Every week or so, we ask a North Korean your questions, giving you the chance to learn more about the country we know so little about.

Got a question? Email it to [email protected] with your name and city. We’ll be publishing the best ones.

This week a new writer introduces themselves: Park Ui-sung, who has chosen to write under a pseudonym to protect family still in the country.

I still remember the summer I first witnessed death. I was seven years old. At the time, there was a rumor in town that “this year, even the mice will die of hunger.” No writing can express