I've Found That One's LANGUAGE Abilities, Especially For Korean KIDS Like Me, Get Frozen At The Age You Immigrated. So I've Always Associated Korea With Being A Child And Being Infantilized Through My Inability To SPEAK.

Living In CHINA, I FOUND Out That The Bright New World Was Not For Me, Not For Defectors. My Life In North KOREA Had Been OK; SUDDENLY, In China, I Had To Feed Myself And Earn Money. Worst Of All, North Korean Defectors Are Hunted By The Government.

We've Got To Keep Our Eye On What's HAPPENING With RUSSIA And North Korea. We Cannot LOSE Sight Of Domestic POLICY, Either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate CHANGE.

Korea Can't Become A 'first-class' Nation Unless Regulation And 'a SENSE Of POWER' Disappear. The Nation's POLITICS Is The Fourth-class, Bureaucratic Are The Third-class, And Business Is The Second-class.

I Don't THINK The CURRENT Regime Of South Korea Will DEAL Actively With The Issue Of North Korean Defectors.

After EVERY Major CONFLICT - World WAR I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, The Fall Of The Soviet Union - What HAPPENED Was That We ULTIMATELY Hollowed Out The Force, Largely By Doing Deep Across-the-board Cuts.

I've Often FOUND Myself LOOKING Fondly At The Valentine's Cultures In Other Countries. South Korea, For INSTANCE - Where WOMEN Must Give Chocolate To MEN.

The New Year 2015 Will Be A Year Of Great SIGNIFICANCE, In Which We Will MARK The 70th Anniversaries Of National Liberation And Founding Of The Workers' PARTY Of Korea.