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Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Book 3 (2Q84 2)
Ever since before the Second World War, many Koreans with “permanent resident” status in Japan had respected the Communist Party. Communist policies were anti-imperialist, and the party campaigned for the rights of Korean permanent residents. After the war, not long after the Association was formed, a famous Communist by the name of Kim Chon-hae
... See moreMasaji Ishikawa • A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
archival sources in Korea, China, and Japan
Hyun Ok Park • Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
I became obsessed with all the things I had taken for granted before, and all the hardships that marked my life now. But that didn’t last long. I soon learned that thought was not free in North Korea. A free thought could get you killed if it slipped out. If you were lucky, you might get sent to some remote mountainous region to do hard labor.