5/19/2023 0 Comments Suki kim books![]() ![]() It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields - except for the 270 students at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room, and where Suki has accepted a job teaching English. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. ![]() A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reignĮvery day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. ![]()
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