{"product_id":"133986","title":"Pyongyang woman from London ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/3jYCCt6TKF9UKw359RjYM0qI1j00hZ.png?v=1765022320\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Pyongyang woman from London \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/117009532\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e What comes to mind when you think of \"North Korea\"? Kim Jong-un, nuclear weapons, dictatorship, poverty... We hear these things often on the news, but they feel vague and distant. \u003cbr\u003eThis book is not an abstraction of North Korea, but a landscape painting that delicately depicts the scenery within it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book is a memoir, but at the same time, it is a letter containing the journey and sorrows of a Pyongyang citizen.\u003cbr\u003e It's more brutal because it's plain.\u003cbr\u003e The fierce life of a woman as a wife and mother serves as a small mirror that reflects the blind spots of the vast North Korean society that extends from Kim Il-sung to Kim Jong-un.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As a survivor, as someone who escaped, the author says it is his duty to inform the world so that a country like North Korea will never be established anywhere else on Earth, so that our children will never again have to live in such a hell.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e 'I'm looking for my sister.\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1 Lucky One\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Partisan family and father\u003cbr\u003e “Always be prepared!”\u003cbr\u003e An unforgettable family vacation\u003cbr\u003e The world of power\u003cbr\u003e water and oil \u003cbr\u003etie\u003cbr\u003e blessing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 2: Mother of Two Sons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Life with in-laws\u003cbr\u003e inadequate mother\u003cbr\u003e We must save Joo-hyuk\u003cbr\u003e New courage\u003cbr\u003e Wings traded for father's misfortune\u003cbr\u003e Geumdongi\u003cbr\u003e Become a member of the Workers' Party of Korea\u003cbr\u003e Changes in Pyongyang\u003cbr\u003e relapse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 3: Knowing Freedom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e North Korean Embassy in London\u003cbr\u003e capitalist welfare system\u003cbr\u003e Korean town New Malden\u003cbr\u003e summons\u003cbr\u003e A Liberal European Journey\u003cbr\u003e Father's last 'gift'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 4: The Abandoned\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Life is love\u003cbr\u003e The emergence of a new dictator\u003cbr\u003e problem child\u003cbr\u003e poor prime minister\u003cbr\u003e A ray of light\u003cbr\u003e Gone with the Wind\u003cbr\u003e Mother's Regret\u003cbr\u003e Living is a crime\u003cbr\u003e Last winter\u003cbr\u003e farewell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 5 Miracle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Let's never break up again\u003cbr\u003e 'Little Republic'\u003cbr\u003e anxious children\u003cbr\u003e Longing for freedom\u003cbr\u003e select\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 6: A True Free Man\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My brother-in-law came to Korea\u003cbr\u003e Unsent letter\u003cbr\u003e Thank you, Republic of Korea\u003cbr\u003e Fly high\u003cbr\u003e Everything is grace\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Countless children have disappeared without a sound. \u003cbr\u003eWhen I was in my second year of high school, Kim Young-sook, the youngest daughter of Kim Dong-gyu, a former anti-Japanese guerrilla fighter who was serving as vice president, suddenly disappeared one day.\u003cbr\u003e She was a chubby, cheerful girl who loved to eat and always carried a snack in her hand.\u003cbr\u003e Kim Young-sun, Kim Yu-ri, and Kim Seo-gyeong, the daughters of the deputy director of the Central Party's United Front Department who returned from Japan, were also good-natured and studious siblings who enjoyed secret power, but they disappeared overnight with their entire family.\u003cbr\u003e Bang Hee-soon, 30), whose father was a naval commander and later served as Minister of Army and Maritime Affairs, also disappeared with his entire family one day during the August vacation before entering college.\u003cbr\u003e Even though we were young students, we knew very well that we shouldn't try to find out why our friends had disappeared, and we shouldn't ask them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From \"The World of Power\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My doubts about him were later resolved while living abroad with my husband. \u003cbr\u003eForeigners worked hard for a month and paid a certain amount of their monthly income to the government as taxes, and the government used those taxes to run the government and implement welfare policies for the people.\u003cbr\u003e But the salary I received in North Korea was so paltry that I couldn't even buy a pound of meat.\u003cbr\u003e If we've never paid our citizens a fair wage, isn't it only natural that we can't collect taxes? It's absurd to boast about being a tax-free country.\u003cbr\u003e I would rather have taxes collected and a system created where the people can live properly, not a free medical treatment system or free education system that is ineffective, but a system where people can receive proper treatment and education by paying money, and a system where people can receive basic living rights in return for working hard.\u003cbr\u003e I wanted to live in a system where I could receive support.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From \"Capitalist Welfare System\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The husband asked again as if to confirm.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Are you really sure you won't regret it? Are you sure you won't say you miss your mother and want to go back?\u003cbr\u003e I'm fine.\u003cbr\u003e “Your parents are already gone, and your siblings have lived their entire lives at the end of their rope, so they can endure hardships, but your siblings are different.”\u003cbr\u003e At that moment, the faces of my mother and brothers passed by one after another.\u003cbr\u003e The thought of my entire family being kicked out to the countryside overnight because of me was suffocating.\u003cbr\u003e I stood at the threshold where a moment's choice could send my loved ones to heaven or hell.\u003cbr\u003e ---From \"Selection\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When I decided to defect, I spent all day reading about South Korea's laws related to the protection of North Korean defectors.\u003cbr\u003e I looked into the enforcement decrees aimed at protecting and supporting North Korean defectors and envisioned my future situation in Korea.\u003cbr\u003e Living in London, I had always seen the hardships of immigrants' lives, so I didn't have high expectations for life in Korea. \u003cbr\u003eMy husband and I promised to overcome the sorrows of being first-generation immigrants.\u003cbr\u003e I was confident that I could overcome any hardship if I could just give my children the milk.\u003cbr\u003e But the world was on our family's side in their search for freedom.\u003cbr\u003e The very existence of the Republic of Korea on the Korean Peninsula was a great fortune for our family.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e ---From \"Thankful Republic of Korea\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eI believed that the fate of the Kim Il-sung family was my own fate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I lived a life of comfort, more so than others, under the shadow of my father, a loyal subject of Kim Il-sung. I believed that being loyal to Kim Il-sung, a divine being, was my duty and morality, and that was my lifelong destiny.\u003cbr\u003e But as a child, I saw friends disappear overnight along with their entire families, and I realized that the comfort I had enjoyed was nothing more than a mirage that could vanish at any moment.\u003cbr\u003e Life here was not safe for anyone, regardless of their level of power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spoonful of freedom tasted in Denmark, Sweden, and England\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He was afraid of the power that came with authority and did not even show any greed, but his first child, who came as a blessing, was seriously ill.\u003cbr\u003e From the best doctors in North Korea to the divine intervention of a distant grandmother, everything was tried, but the condition showed no signs of improvement.\u003cbr\u003e To save the child, I had to go abroad.\u003cbr\u003e After experiencing the healthcare systems of capitalist societies in Denmark, Sweden, and the UK with my diplomat husband, the true nature of North Korea's anti-people system became painfully clear.\u003cbr\u003e In times of hardship, our family's only recourse was not our home country, but foreign welfare systems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLonging for freedom, worries, and choices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I wanted to believe that I had lived diligently for my country, but it was a life of slavery, not for my country, but for a dictator.\u003cbr\u003e In a situation where everyone had to return to that place where they were slaves, a miraculous opportunity that only God could give came. \u003cbr\u003eIf you miss that opportunity, your children will resent you for a long time.\u003cbr\u003e The thought of returning to North Korea and living a life of slavery again was terrifying.\u003cbr\u003e But I couldn't even begin to fathom the weight of the choice to break my slave contract.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThank you, Korea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thanks to the love, trust, and hospitality I received from the Republic of Korea, I am well-established in Korean society.\u003cbr\u003e Coming to Korea, I learned that the great gift of freedom presupposes many restraints.\u003cbr\u003e In exchange for giving a lot to individuals, the price is sometimes sweet and sometimes bitter.\u003cbr\u003e But the author's dream of freedom is said to continue to evolve.\u003cbr\u003e A society where you can continue to dream, a society where you can achieve your dreams if you just put in the effort, is the Republic of Korea. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - 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