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After Kim Il-sung’s statement, the General Association of Korean Residents started a mass repatriation campaign in the guise of humanitarianism. The following year, 1959, the Japanese Red Cross Society and the Korean Red Cross Society secretly negotiated a “Return Agreement” in Calcutta. Four months later, the first shipload of returnees left the J
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Andrei Lankov • REVIEW: The Real North Korea, by Andrei Lankov
EVERY EVENING, at dusk, we began burning our things: old bank statements and diaries, Buddhist family altars, wooden
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
I bring up Korea to collapse the proximity between here and there. Or as activists used to say, “I am here because you were there.”
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Readers, teachers, and editors told me in so many words that I should write whatever felt true to my heart but that since I was Asian, I might as well stick to the subject of Asians, even though no one cared about Asians, but what choice did I have since if I wrote about, say, nature, no one would care because I was an Asian person writing about na
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“She was my champion, she was my archive. She had taken the utmost care to preserve the evidence of my existence and growth, capturing me in images, saving all my documents and possessions.”
– Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
They took us even though we bit them.