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She'd had plastic surgery to add the extra little crease in her eyelids to make herself look more Caucasian. It was the ultimate South Korean experience. Mrs. Song had arrived.

By 2001 Chinese goods poured into North Korea, DVDs stamped out by Chinese pirating factories were small and cheap. Big sellers were Titanic, Con Air, and Witness.

Establishing juchemeans, in a nutshell, being the master of revolution and reconstruction in one's own country. This means holding fast to an independent position, rejecting dependence on others, using one's own brains, believing in one's own strength, displaying the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance.
- Kim Il-sung

An interesting quote especially as I'm also reading Stranger in their Own Land.

In the futuristic dystopia imagined in 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world were the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea.