One of our friends in the expat community in Pyongyang was from Poland. He was interested in the North Korea outside the capital city and so with this curiosity decided to take a trip to explore the countryside. At the end of his trip, I asked him what he thought about North Korea. I was particularly interested to hear what he had to say coming from a former communist nation himself. This is what he concluded, “In Poland, we always viewed communism as something imposed on us by a foreign power (Russia), but in North Korea I discovered that communism is a nationalistic movement, of the people
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