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Which book would you like to read (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is really intriguing. I had no idea what this post was referencing, so I tried looking up the titles of these books to find information. From searching, I figured out that they're books published in DPRK.

So I started searching to see if there were any available books from the DPRK (revolutionary or not) in the US. I can't find anything, only books ABOUT the DPRK.

Is there somewhere to find books that are from DPRK available worldwide, or are they at all attainable? I love to read and think it would be valuable insight.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://www.phaidon.com/store/design/printed-in-north-korea-the-art-of-everyday-life-in-the-dprk-9780714879239/

Wasnt made in NK but the author collected this work from visiting it and is in regular contact with the artists + has tried to showcase there work outside of NK.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Awesome, thank you!

I'm hoping, honestly, for some revolutionary stuff I would love to hear from a Korean revolutionary, or Korean revolutionary thought.

Do you know why it is that this stuff is essentially unavailable? Has NK forbade literature from leaving the country, or is this an issue in the US/Western countries?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

You might be interested in this: https://archive.org/details/my-life-and-faith-eng/

Memoirs of a Korean who grew up under Japanese occupation, got radicalized as a young teen and became a revolutionary, lived in the newly formed DPRK, then became a war correspondent, later got captured and spent 40 years being tortured in south Korean prison, and was eventually released and he returned to DPRK. It's his memoir but it also serves as an overview of recent Korean history starting from the Japanese occupation period.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Has NK forbade literature from leaving the country, or is this an issue in the US/Western countries?

The issue the author ran into isnt that NK doesnt allow lit/art to leave the country; in fact they really want that to happen! Art is one of North Korea's biggest exports, they are the biggest supplier of statues in the world and have some stunning works on display in Africa.

Its that everytime a collector like this tries to showcase work, make profit off of reselling NK artists art and such, it gets censored or closed down by western govermnets due to 'human rights concerns'

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's really interesting. I know next to nothing about the DPRK, much less their art/literature/thought/etc.

Thanks for the insight, now I have a new rabbit hole to go down.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

An example of what they export.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Holy shit. That's fucking impressive

Thanks for sharing. Today has been a bit eye opening for me. I've read a lot of theory, and am an anarcho-syndicalist, but I know next to nothing about the Korean Revolution. I have a lot of reading to do.

Thanks, comrade.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

The Immortal Revolutionary Traditions sounds like it goes hard.

But The Path of Great Love would definitely be the one I'd also pick up first.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

I’m a hopeless romantic so I’d read the Path of Great Love

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

I want to look at the fucke art