Interview Series: SUKI KIM, UNDERCOVER IN NORTH KOREA

What Really Happened?

Andrew Jenks

Society & Culture

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Suki Kim is the only writer ever, as far as we know, to have lived undercover in North Korea. She was there for 6 months. She managed to get out alive, secretly taking notes that eventually became her book, “Without You, There is No Us”, a best-seller in 2015. Jenks recently read the book and was captivated. Suki's unparalleled experience provides unique insight into the hermit kingdom. In this wide-ranging interview, Suki explains everything from what it’s like to live in North Korea to the future of what is considered the most inaccessible country in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to what really happened.
0:02.8	My name is Andrew Janks.
0:05.5	This podcast is produced by Duane the Rock Johnson, Danny Garcia, Brian Gowertz, Seven
0:10.1	Bucks Productions, and Kaden's 13.
0:13.2	Today is an interview with a person that quite literally has a story unlike anything I've
0:19.4	ever heard.
0:20.4	I mean, anything, any of us have ever heard.
0:23.2	The interview is with Su-ki Kim.
0:26.0	Su-ki is a Korean American, born and raised in South Korea until her family moved to the
0:31.5	United States when she was 13.
0:33.6	In 2011, Su-ki went undercover in North Korea.
0:38.0	The first and only writer that we know of to do so.
0:42.0	She did this for six months at a school called Poust, Pyongyang University of Science and
0:48.9	Technology.
0:50.7	Poust is a school for 270 North Korean male young men who are obviously in North Korea.
0:58.0	They are from the upper echelon of society.
1:01.0	We're talking the top 1% of 1%.
1:04.2	Their parents have serious power in the country.
1:07.6	They all live on campus in Pyongyang.
1:09.9	What Su-ki describes as something that resembles more of a military compound.
1:14.8	Now this is important.
1:16.3	The school is financed by evangelical Christians, missionaries, who obviously are from outside
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