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[NPR] Among The Young And Privileged In North Korea

October 25, 2014

 

In this Sept. 1, 2014 photo, a North Korean woman waits for a train in an underground subway station in Pyongyang, North Korea. In Pyongyang, where the standard of living is relatively high, clothes and styles have been changing in recent years - slowly and in a limited way, but more than many outsiders might think. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

In this Sept. 1, 2014 photo, a North Korean woman waits for a train in an underground subway station in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

[NPR] In the summer of 2011, American journalist Suki Kim got a job teaching English at the elite, all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology in the North Korean capital.

Kim, who was born in South Korea and immigrated with her family to the U.S. at age 13, is a fluent Korean speaker and secretly took notes during her six months at the university in Pyongyang. This formed the basis for her new book, Without You, There Is No Us. [READ MORE]