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The Secret Mission to Feed North Koreans

Rice from Heaven: The Secret Mission to Feed North Koreans by Tina M. Cho

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Based on a true story, Rice from Heaven: The Secret Mission to Feed North Koreans gives a softer view of a very true hardship the people of North Korea face. When a village in South Korea decides to secretly send balloons filled with rice to feed the hungry people of North Korea, they are faced with many obstacles: the other villagers do not want to give aide to the enemy. The North Korean soldiers could see the balloons and shoot them down. They do not know if the people get the food as everything is done in a way that […]

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9/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:359 |

Repeating history?

This Kind of War by T.R. Fehrenbach

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I have many thoughts about this book but as always, here’s the situation that led to me reading it.  This Kind of War is another book from the Army Chief of Staff’s reading list.  It has also been recommended by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis as a must-read. Secretary Mattis is known, colloquially, as the Warrior Monk due to his dedication to his craft and his knowledge and understanding of making war.  He is known to be a voracious reader and believes that all leaders should be reading.  From Task and Purpose, Secretary Mattis said “You need to have that […]

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2/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:9 |

A buzzing sound began in my brain

A Small Revolution by Jimin Han

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This book came to me by way of Amazon Prime’s First Reads program, so it was free, which was the correct price for it. I did keep wanting to love it, but fundamentally I hated it. Here is what it had going for it: it was a very fast read. A Small Revolution is the story of a young Korean-American woman – our narrator, Yoona – who does a program in the summer between high school and college that brings Korean-Americans to South Korea for tour and immersion in the culture (it sounded to me like an equivalent program to […]

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12/7/2017 's CBR9 Review No:43 |

Imagine Russia Kidnapped Brangelina to Make Putin Propaganda

A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer

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Remember the hissy fit North Korea pitched over Seth Rogan’s cinematic turd fest The Interview? From their reaction, you’d think the famously repressive country had something against the silver screen. As it turns out, nothing could be further from the truth. After Kim Jong-il died in 2011 (he was the one in jumpsuits) it came out that the former Dear Leader was a huge movie buff, with a dedicated smuggling system implemented just so he could watch western cinema. In his twenties, he was appointed Cultural Arts Director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department. The Department started churning out movies, […]

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1/29/2016 's CBR8 Review No:18 |

“We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live”-Joan Didion

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park and Maryanne Vollers

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When I was in college, I remember taking an international politics class. It was an Intro class, populated by a lot of students who heard it was a skate class. We ended up talking about North Korea one day, and one waste of valuable mass stood up to proclaim that if he were a North Korean, hewouldn’t be taking any of “ this Kim Jong Whatever’s shit.” When our professor (I hope trying to amp up our fremdschämen, and as a slight tangent, seriously God bless the German language) asked this oxygen destroyer what he would do to survive in […]

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1/4/2016 's CBR8 Review No:2 |


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