McMurc

What do you think about the fact that your AMA gets more upvotes/attention than the one by someone who wrote a biography on Beethoven?

Well, if it's a giant St. Bernard who also composes classical music, I'd say definitely.

(a rhetorical question to make clear you are not stupid, smooth.)

I recently read in a book (Jake Adelstein's Tokyo Vice) that some North Koreans who were forced to work in Japan during WWII, later returned to North Korea to "help rebuild the country". It also says they soon realised that was a bad decision since they weren't allowed to leave and had to live in poor conditions. Is this something you are familiar with and if so, could you please elaborate? (I hope my question is specific enough and thank you for doing this.)