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More articles by 'Oliver Jia'
The giant's miniature garden: Masayuki Aramaki's Pyongyang odyssey
The Japanese filmmaker has been to North Korea 35 times, meticulously capturing daily life. Why does he keep going back?
A North Korean school of rock: teaching heavy metal to Pyongyang school girls
Funky Sueyoshi reflects on his time at the June 9th school — and whether music could ever inspire change in the DPRK
From North Carolina to North Korea and beyond: meeting a U.S. defector in Japan
Charles Robert Jenkins spent 39 years in the DPRK, working as everything from translator to silver screen star
