Summary: An author known solely as "Bandi" wrote a series of stories telling about the average life of a North Korean citizen. The book was titled "The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea," and spoke of the lives of regular North Koreans and the awful hardships they face. The stories are fiction, but are said to be an accurate representation of what it is like to live under such oppression and lack of privacy. The book is said to expose the fact that many of these people live like slaves, as they are constantly monitored and controlled. A South Korean citizen by the name of Do Hee-youn heard about the manuscript, and agreed to help smuggle it over the border, a very dangerous task that could leave him in prison or beheaded if he was caught. He found a way to hide it between propaganda books that were being carried by Chinese tourists, and managed to sneak the 750 page manuscript into South Korea successfully. The book was published, and is now available in 19 languages.
Analysis: This article was written on April 2, 2017, by Paula Handcocks, to inform readers of the dangerous actions Do Hee-youn went through to deliver an important message to the rest of the world. I was blown away by this story when I first read about it, and I think it's amazing that someone would have the courage to risk everything to expose the terrible treatment North Korean citizens are experiencing. These people are living in scary circumstances and it's so important that their conditions are known.
Synthesis: The Accusation reminds me of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a story that exposed the awful living conditions of slaves in the 1800s.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/02/asia/north-korea-the-accusation/ iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool
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