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What North Korea is actually like: view of a US author in Pyongyang

See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un’s North Korea by Travis Jeppesen. Published by Hachette. 4 stars When Travis Jeppesen, a 37-year-old writer and art critic, spotted the ad offering a one-month study programme in North Korea, he didn’t hesitate. Not that he was any wide-eyed naif: he had visited four times before. But he was done with package tours, with being shuttled from monument to tedious monument. If he were to return to the Democratic People’s...

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