Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

All of North Korea is a jail.

Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.

To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it's China.

Inside, I’m assaulted by the evening propaganda broadcasts coming over the apartment’s hardwired loudspeaker. There’s one in every apartment and factory floor in Pyongyang

I felt like a frog that had just come out of its pit, from which it had contemplated the circle of sky outlined by the rim, and taken it for the whole of the world. I had passed through to the other side of the mirror. (162)