Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity

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On social occasions the country's founding leader, Kim Il-sung, would nag her to study hard, which made him seem like a 'typical Korean grandfather'.

Monica Macias: “I wanted to become a pianist. Kim Il Sung

Her father was assassinated when Monica was still young. He was accused of being a murderer and of committing many atrocities and a lot of her book details her efforts to try and exonerate him but again there did not seem to be any obvious evidence.

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Do a lot of the defectors face discrimination in South Korea, I believe so yes. Must it be difficult to rebuild your life as an immigrant in the South? So hard I expect, especially when often times they have left their family behind and may never know what will happen to them but also economically, competitively etc. However considering the circumstances people have to flee in I would argue that they've left for good reasons. Friendship: Francisco (left) poses for a photo with a friend in the grounds of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School in Pyongyang in 1984 I like to remind readers that the author is not trying to show the world the truth and the only truth, but she is giving the reader an opportunity to soak in how other people might see the world. Not everything anyone of us have learned in school and during our upbringing is the ultimate truth. We all need to try to understand other people better, and not simply let everyone know we have the only right knowledge, and everyone else is wrong. Isn't that one of the reasons the world is what it is today? How I unintentionally ended up spending 15 years of my life in North Korea". NK News - North Korea News. 21 February 2014. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023 . Retrieved 20 November 2021.