The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

What good's a captive without her captor?

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.