Ask A North Korean
Your chance to ask questions to North Koreans about life growing up in the DPRK
Ask a North Korean: Called in for questioning by government officials
"Once they take you away to the prison camp, you are never heard from again"
Ask a North Korean: Pop culture and young love in North Korea
"If a CD or DVD is found stuck in your player, you’re in deep trouble"
Ask a North Korean: Beers with a South Korean defector in Pyongyang
"According to him, South Korea was a living hell where people couldn’t live"
Ask a North Korean: How do North Korea’s traffic laws work?
"In most regions outside of Pyongyang, there isn’t much traffic at all and traffic lights are rare"
Ask a North Korean: How capitalist is North Korea today?
"North Korea has become a capitalist state in a manner that cannot easily be defined with words"
Ask a North Korean: How many North Koreans read Chinese characters?
"I had always wanted to learn Chinese. I memorized 3000 characters by myself in my spare time"
Ask a North Korean: What do N. Koreans eat that Southerners don’t?
"When you fall ill in North Korea, the first thing that comes to your mind is a dish of rabbit"
Ask a North Korean: Do North Koreans like reading books?
"Among the books I read in North Korea, Sherlock Holmes was my favorite"
Ask a North Korean: Guns and going hunting in North Korea
Hunting is rare and heavily restricted, and the most prized animal specimens go to top brass
Ask a North Korean: What is married life like in North Korea?
In the DPRK, who you marry is all about status - but times are changing
