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The Accusation: Forbidden Stories From Inside North Korea

By Bandi

Book information

Publisher
Profile Books
Year
2017
ASIN
B01KAEKJ10
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
223 kB (228495 bytes)
Pages
0\0
Time added
2017-03-11 16:23:43
North KoreaShort stories

Description

Bandi is the Korean word for firefly. It is the pseudonym of an anonymous dissident writer still living in North Korea. The South Korean publication of this piece of fiction, which sharply criticizes and satirizes the North Korean regime, and which is written by a man who still lives and works under that same system, is a historical first—nothing like it has emerged in the sixty-eight years since the peninsula was divided. Though memoirs and pieces of fiction by North Korean defectors, of a similarly critical tone, have indeed been published now and then, these have all been written after their authors’ escape to the free world. No work denouncing the oppressive, antidemocratic regime of North Korea, by a writer still living in North Korea, has ever before been published.

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