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[BigBlackEquus]

It is many, many pages long.

http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang_p.html


"To have sex out of wedlock is very bad. To have sex with a foreigner is unspeakable. Although the foreign students had the advantages of speaking the language and being able to communicate and to make informal contacts at college, the psychological barriers they had to break down were immense. They then encountered the further problem in such a closely supervised society of lack of privacy and opportunity. In the foreign students' hotels lived Korean guides who were there ostensibly to assist them, but also to keep a careful eye on them. Many of the female students would be living at home with their parents or, if they lived in a students' hostel, they would be sharing rooms. As one African explained to me, the only chance you get is late at night and then you end up doing it in a bush. "

"On 21st November 1987, the Pyongyang Times carried a photograph of two men carrying cameras and wearing gas-masks. The caption read, "Reporters are obliged to wear gas-masks for news coverage in pollution-ridden Seoul." It evidently did not occur to the editorial board that the presence of riot police in the same photograph might suggest to the reader a different explanation for the gas-masks.
It is reported in the same issue that 57.6% of the South Korean population are infected with the TB virus, "that the number of hepatitis patients totalled 4.5 million" and "there are 27,000 lepers". Then there is the skin gangrene caused by eating pollution-infected fish, and, of course, AIDS.
Reporting an AIDS epidemic in South Korea, the Pyongyang Times for September 12th 1987 stated that this is more than just attributable to the presence of the GI's. The US government actually posts AIDS-infected GI's to South Korea as a deliberate policy. "The aim of dispatching AIDS carriers from the US is to enable the transmission and effects of the AIDS virus to be studied experimentally using Korean people as guinea pigs."
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[semphoon]

Bump!

Read this!!!

Ive been reading for 2 hours. Much fun.

[yesnoyesyesno]

[quote="BigBlackEquus"]It is many, many pages long.

http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang_p.html


i'm making my way through this article, seems to be a book. interesting snip

"It was a very pleasant surprise then when later that day the vision of loveliness presented herself at my door and asked in my own native tongue if she could come in. She was not only a singularly attractive girl, but remarkable in other ways too. Now aged twenty-three, she had been sent to Korea five years ago under a student exchange scheme to study agricultural engineering in Pyongyang. As well as mastering her subject, she had also obviously had to master first the Korean language, and she had also taught herself English in her own time through reading and practising conversation with the African students and any other foreigners she chanced to meet. She already spoke English pretty well and she was keen for me to help her improve it. I was very happy to oblige."

timeless!

[Summer Wine]

I am still working through it. I find it a very enjoyable read.

This following passage jumped out at me and in a slight way you can see a similar thing here in South Korea.