North Korean defector poetry

  When Will That Day Come? By Hong Soo Young Seasons never stop and just go by This year again, fall is upon me How come the wall of separation Is not crumbling down yet With fall, the foliage comes The foliage gone, white frost is everywhere Seasons go by in vain How come the [...]

China absorbing North Korea

On a recent trip to North Korea, John Linton remarked after viewing that country’s athletic blitzkrieg known as the Arirang Games, which closed on Oct. 20, that a third of the performance was in praise of China. The son of missionary parents raised in rural South Jeolla Province and current head of Yonsei’s College of [...]