LilkaLyubov

Thank you so much for your time!

Do you think reunification can happen? A lot of political observers see North Korea's fall as inevitable. Do you think that might happen? Does the average North Korean genuinely want reunification, or is that a desire brought upon by the regime's constant propaganda?

감사합니다!

I adored Nothing to Envy because it was a view into how ordinary North Koreans thought and experienced during the famine of the 1990s. Now, I remember reading another AMA (in fact, the very reason I signed up for Reddit) of a North Korean defector who left North Korea much later than the defectors in NtE. He indicated that there is a huge shift in how the youth of NK perceive the regime--they go through a lot for appearances' sake, but they don't believe in the Kims much like some of the characters in NtE seemed to. Have you seen this in your work? And, my burning question, have you considered writing a follow-up to NtE with the next generation of defectors?

I'm not Ms. Demick, but I donate to Liberty in North Korea. http://www.reddit.com/r/link Http://www.libertyinnorthkorea.org

What will you do with education? It seems like, with the path Virginia is going on, we will end up like Mississippi where we're going to be preaching creationism and Christian mores in our classroom. As a religious non-Christian living in SW VA, this concerns me. I also feel as though our education system is subpar. Is there a plan for improvement? Will we continue to be an abstinence-only sex education state?

Furthermore, another redditor asked this, but I wanted to pose this question again. What is your stance on reproductive health?