Ask A North Korean
Your chance to ask questions to North Koreans about life growing up in the DPRK
Studying a foreign language you may never use
All North Korean students have to learn a second language, only the privileged classes may put them to use
How do North Koreans spend days off?
In this week's Ask a North Korean, we learn that workers get days off like anywhere else - just don't get caught listening to K-pop
Defection and the trouble with freedom
This week's Ask a North Korean describes the hardships of adapting to a competitive society where one's life isn't planned for them
Bright lights, not human rights: Why North Koreans envy their neighbors
Ask a North Korean: What do people along the border think about the Chinese – and those living in Pyongyang?
Defector: Why balloons stand no chance of changing North Korea
Foreigners expecting anti-government leaflets to stimulate regime change misunderstand the realities of North Korea
How the famine helped improve our choices in North Korea
How North Korea's devastating famine surprisingly helped improve local access to food and consumer goods
How to get whatever you want in North Korea
While money can buy anything in North Korea, money is not easy to make
News and newsworthiness in N. Korea: Why it doesn’t exist
Why real news about crime, catastrophe and corruption does not exist in DPRK media
Ask a North Korean: Meet Kim Yoo-sung, son of a fugitive
"My father secretly helped a South Korean prisoner from the Korean War escape from the North"
