The Poet Laureate Of Hell

Jang Jin-Sung, author of Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee – A Look Inside North Korea, describes the unpoetic realities of writing verse for the DPRK: I worked in Section 5 (Literature), Division 19 (Poetry) of Office 101. Despite the uncanny and unintended echo of Orwell’s Room 101, this office was, ironically, so named precisely in […]

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