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Tae-il Shim
Tae-il Shim is a pseudonym for a North Korean defector writer. He left the DPRK in 2018, and now resides in South Korea.
Greetings all, and welcome back to Ask a North Korean: the feature where you, the NK News readers, email in with your questions to be answered by our very own defector writers.
Today, we take a look at the construction at Samjiyon, a city in the very north of North Korea.
Greetings all, and welcome back to Ask a North Korean: the feature where you, the NK News readers, email in with your questions to be answered by our very own defector writers.
Today, we take a look at the construction at Samjiyon, a city in the very north of North Korea.
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Tae-il Shim is a pseudonym for a North Korean defector writer. He left the DPRK in 2018, and now resides in South Korea.
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