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The United States often paints North Korea as a volatile nation, completely unpredictable. But if we look at the stance of the nation, what they stand for, and the length of time they have been heading down the same path, we can see that they are, in fact, predictable after all. Perhaps we just do not understand where they are headed, who they are, and for what they stand.
NK is not wholly unpredictable; we just don’t know them well enough to recognize their personality as a nation and the way they think and act
The Korean community of Los Angeles taught me about Korean culture on a much deeper level than I’d ever experienced before.
Our daughter was born while I studied for my Master’s degree at U.C.L.A., and our son was born soon after graduation. But our desire to work overseas remained in the back of our minds.
Life timelines sometimelines are not always frontend weighted. Sometimes you can do important life changes even after a masters orn PHD
She began moving her fingers and wrapping her arms around her grandmother’s shoulders as she was piggy-backed. This little girl changed our family’s lives forever.
such an intense culture.
we felt we should try to understand their paradigm of the world. What is it that they understand and believe? What is their interpretation of history? How do they see themselves in relation to the rest of the world?
Re: Buggers and Piggies in the Ender series
On an unofficial level however, there is growing desire in North Korea to interact with the world. People we met were eager to receive news from the outside world.
