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December 27, 2024

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Ask a North Korean: is it difficult for defectors to speak “South Korean”?

"Self-conscious of my North Korean accent, I usually stay silent wherever I go"

Welcome back to Ask a North Korean, where NK News readers like yourself ask questions to and have them answered by our North Korean writers.

This time our question comes from Cayla, who says she "was wondering what a speaker of the North Korean dialect perceives as the largest differences [between the North and South Korean dialects]."

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