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[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 69 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I know a good number of North Koreans...

How do you know so many North Koreans?

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hah, got me there.

I did actually meet a North Korean once when I spent a fair bit of time in Seoul during a study abroad program, but she "defected" as a child (read: smuggled into the South via China by some Christian group) and didn't really have much recollection of what life in the North was even like. Definitely not many though!

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

One of my parents was in North Korea multiple times in the 80s as a tour guide from the Eastern Block, I remember hearing the stories about it when I was a child.

Cameras being taken, poverty housing blocked off with walls, fake buildings and rooms, US soldiers watching them from the other side of the DMZ “negotiation building”.

I always took these stories for granted, and didn’t realize for a long time how special and unique these experiences were. When I tell my Western EU colleagues they always drop their jaws.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 28 points 22 hours ago

One is more than a lot of us can claim.

[–] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

I'm a quarter NK. All the NKs I know are dead tho

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Nice try, Kim!