The centrality of lying as the art of survival in Orwellian North Korea

The centrality of lying as the art of survival in Orwellian North Korea

Hyeonseo Lee’s … status was threatened when her ailing stepfather committed suicide by taking an overdose of Valium. The Kim regime views suicide as a kind of jailbreak; it responds by punishing a dead citizen’s children. They can be reclassified as “hostile,” which denies them access to universities and limits job prospects. The suicide jolted […]