Perspectives on Global Issues Journal - April 2017
When asked about my experiences in North Korea, two questions always come up: Why would you want to go there? And, what was it like? As a global affairs student, the first seems easy to answer with a simple, “why not?” But the second, I still stumble in a search for words to explain. There is nothing to compare it to, nor will there ever be a place like it to exist again in our globalized world. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a complicated contrast of beauty and suppressed tragedy. The ‘hermit kingdom’ has become our world’s dark Disneyland.
