Kuu’s Reviews > Only Beautiful, Please: A British Diplomat in North Korea > Status Update

"to agree on how much aid Japan might give as de facto compensation for the unfortunate past" UNFORTUNATE PAST?????? UNFORTUNATE????????

"the nature of the dprk and how it came to be the way it is has not been widely studied" HUH?????

"if north korea had been colonised a little longer they might have turned out different!" not a good look for you as a brit

"a longer period of Soviet direct rule might have headed the newly-formed state away from its plans to reunite the peninsula by force, and so avoided the Korean War" this is certainly a take to have in a chapter of historical accidents leading the dprk to be the way it is today, especially when you do NOT mention that not occupying and splitting the korean peninsula in the first place would've been the best solution