Without you, there is no us
my time with the sons of North Korea's elite
About this book
"A ... memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign"--Amazon.com
It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields-- except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room. Suki Kim offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves."
Subjects
- biography
- education
- education and state
- elite (social sciences)
- english teachers
- government policy
- histoire
- history
- history (discipline)
- korea
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:education=2015-02-08
- politics and government
- politique et gouvernement
- social conditions