New book draws on reality to make fictional portrayal of life in North Korea

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To citizens around the world, what goes on in North Korea is largely a mystery.

Though the human rights abuses, extreme food rationing and hunger, arbitrary violence by the state and the impossibility of traveling past the country's borders are well known, the daily reality of living within those strictures have gone undocumented.

Article and 10 minute audio interview at:
http://www.pri.org/stories/arts-entertainment/books/new-book-draws-on-reality-to-make-fictional-portrayal-of-life-in-north-korea-7918.html

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