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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.
tl;dr: A fictional account of life in North Korea that seems all too true...
While making my way through The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson, I couldn’t help but continually wonder how much of it is true? Take, for example, the portrayal of a North Korean fishing vessel that crosses to Japan to kidnap a woman. I remember reading about such incidents in the news years ago. Certainly the particular details in the book are fictional: there’s no way to know the names of the perpetrators and exactly what was said and done...
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