Ask A North Korean
Your chance to ask questions to North Koreans about life growing up in the DPRK
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"
How foreign movies changed my life in North Korea
Ask a North Korean: How do North Koreans view Western and South Korean movies, DVDs and songs?
Ask a North Korean: How fashion works in North Korea
"I think that North Koreans are even more obsessed with fashion than South Koreans"
Hello from a former resident of Mt. Paektu, North Korea
Ask a North Korean column relaunches with two new writers joining Ji Min from Pyongyang
