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Ask a North Korean: What was it like to secretly watch South Korean dramas?
A defector recalls trading banned videos, bribing his way out of crackdowns and questioning life in the DPRK
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A defector from Hyesan remembers his mother’s escape, a crackdown over South Korean media and the road to freedom
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