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I finished Suki Kim’s book after swearing off television for two days.

Pop American educators may be stirred by more than the Harry Potter ‘crisis’ near the climax …

…very well written – Ms. Kim seems a “natural” at conveying very unnatural situations and psyches. Not a fan of the dictatorship nor her “employer’s” mission but she brings out the human qualities hiding in each. She opens the Westerners’ eyes and hearts to the shared anguish of both halves of Korea – the unbelievable attempts to anesthetize it.

Quite an eye opener how one demi-god* can create his own Dark Age and affect an entire a nuclear weaponized nation. (*I chose not to use demagogue)

It wasn’t her express purpose but as a side affect she seems demolish the rationale of the optimistic expectation that the world’s innocents will never again be plagued by a megalomaniac.

She’s quite an “emotional writer” who conveys emotion accurately without emotional distortion.

I am so impressed! Continue reading →