“Five Things You Learn Growing Up In (And Escaping) North Korea”: Cracked

makes me choke up, w/the thing about 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea:

Of all the Koreas in the world, North Korea has the most murderous dictators per capita. We’ve had a lot of fun riffing on the craziest facets of the Hermit Kingdom, but beyond all the hilarious propaganda and somewhat less hilarious threats of nuclear war, North Korea is a nation of 25 million people living very weird, awful lives.

We wanted to know what life was really like for those people, so we sat down with an escaped North Korean refugee, an American journalist who spent time exploring Pyongyang, and the grandson of an anonymous Asian nation’s ambassador to North Korea. They told us …

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