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Without you, there is no us : my time with the sons of North Korea's elite / Print Suki Kim. - First edition. - New York Crown Publishers 2014 - 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm Hardback book.

"A memoir"--Jacket.

"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."

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Kim, Suki, 1970-


English teachers--Korea (North)
Elite (Social sciences)--Korea (North)
Education and state--Korea (North)


Korea (North)--Politics and government--2011-
Korea (North)--Social conditions--21st century.

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