[...] There’s a history for this. When the North Koreans accepted international food aid in the 1990’s, they told their people that it was a “reparation” won by the intimidating power of their military. In fact, that’s the plot premise behind North Korea’s most popular political novel, “Barrel of a Gun” (which Oranckay would very much like to translate if someone would give him the grant to do it). [...]

We really need to have a Korea expat blogger gathering one day.