{"id":8610,"date":"2014-07-14T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T15:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8610"},"modified":"2014-07-14T11:23:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T15:23:36","slug":"five-things-you-learn-growing-up-in-and-escaping-north-korea-cracked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/07\/five-things-you-learn-growing-up-in-and-escaping-north-korea-cracked.html","title":{"rendered":"“Five Things You Learn Growing Up In (And Escaping) North Korea”: Cracked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

makes me choke up, w\/the thing about 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Of all the Koreas in the world, North Korea has the most murderous dictators per capita. We\u2019ve had a lot<\/a> of fun riffing<\/a> on the craziest facets<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s ambassador to North Korea. They told us \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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. 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