![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon she grows attached to her students, whose naivete and obedience to the regime she finds heartbreaking. Although she's covered North Korea for years as a journalist, the regimented foreign press tours reveal very little of the repressive regime, and so she has chosen to live under its watchful eye. The year is 2011 and Suki has accepted a job teaching English to the children of the elite at the prisonlike complex of Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST). It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it herself. Every day, three times a day, students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong Il and North Korea. ![]()
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