The Death Of Dictator Kim Jong-il Has

In America, The Stories We Tell Ourselves And We Tell Each Other In Fiction Have To Do With Individualism. Every Person Here Is The Center Of His Or Her Own Story. And Our Job As People And As Characters Is To Find Our Own Motivations And Desires, To Overcome Conflicts And Obstacles Toward Defining Ourselves So That We Grow And Change.

A Good Story Feels Both Surprising And Inevitable, Fresh And Familiar.

But People Do Things To Survive, And Then After They Survive, They Can't Live With What They've Done.

Orphans Are The Only Ones Who Get To Choose Their Fathers, And They Love Them Twice As Much.

But, In North Korea, It's Just The Opposite. There's One Story. It's Written By The Kim Regime. And 23 Million People Are Conscripted To Be Secondary Characters. There, As A Youth, Your Aptitude Towards Certain Jobs Is Measured, And The Rest Of Your Life Is Dictated, Whether You'll Be A Fisherman Or A Farmer Or An Opera Singer.