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by Kazuki Kaneshiro

A communist society like North Korea doesn’t recognize religion but needs something resembling one to unify its people. Kim Il Sung was that something—the charismatic founder of a religion.

“A lone person devoted to reading novels has the power equal to a hundred people gathered at a meeting.”

“Nationality isn’t much more than a lease to an apartment,” I said. “If you don’t like the apartment anymore, you break the lease and get out.”