Every year around this time, I storytime Pyongyang - A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle, with NK's increasing tension it only seems fitting to storytime it again this year.
A biographical comic about a French Canadian Animation director, his life living and working in North Korea for two months. His struggles with the difficulties of outsourcing and the bureaucracy of a totalitarian closed state.
Gather round because the storytime's about to start. Also if you liked this story, support the artist and buy their work.
It provides an interesting look into a 2001 North Korea
Jose James
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Aaron Wood
Well, they could nuke Japan and South Korea any time now, so it is is still very relevant.
Eli Nelson
pyongyang is great, jerusalem was kind of dull, are there any other delisle biographical comics?
Adam Thompson
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Hudson Lee
you have my intrest
Blake Fisher
Shenzen is also a good read. A very frightening thought, a lot has happened this year too. Outside of the constant missile "tests" there was also a NK guard that managed to escape and cross the border this year.
There's also the recent discovery of North Korean slave workers being employed by Polish companies and working in Poland too, with all money they earn sent back to North Korea.
I knew about Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Poland is actually a bit surprising as you really think cheap labor is something they wouldn't need to import.
Jose Miller
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Jonathan Perez
The pay for Polish workers is probably better in the rest of the EU than their own country, so they make up for the lack of workers with North Koreans.
Connor Morales
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Wyatt Williams
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Anthony Morales
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Luke Watson
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Christian Sanchez
Makes sense. They need as many hands as possible on the Lightbulb Project
Jose Carter
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Joseph Adams
The sad part about this is they only send the workers that have families at home, so that if they ever considered fleeing their family would be put in camps. What money they make is promised by NK to go to their family but the majority of the earnings just go to NK.
