“This is not an everyday dinner for the common people,” Jung-Hwa explained to him. His father refused to listen. In fact, he made it a mission to tell anyone he met that North Korea was doing well. Jung-Hwa realized that his father, who dined with North Korean dignitaries, could not care less for the average North Korean and the gulags that awaited commoners if they complained. Choi’s entire life was Tae Kwon Do, and, in his view, Tae Kwon Do needed the North Koreans.