{"id":894,"date":"2009-03-24T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2009\/03\/24\/north-korea-story-notes\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T05:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T05:58:00","slug":"north-korea-story-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2009\/03\/24\/north-korea-story-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Story Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two children orphaned by the famine<\/p>\n

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Japanese girl kidnapped by North Korea, forced to teach English<\/div>\n
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American soldier who defects<\/div>\n
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North Korean spy<\/div>\n
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Kimiko (“Empress”) – Walking to school and is kidnapped by strange men, taken on boat; forced to teach spies at a special school;\u00a0forced to marry a man whom she doesn’t love (rapes her?); her two children are taken from her;\u00a0one of her spy students, Soo-hyun, is to be involved in a terrorist attack on South Korea; Kimiko gives Soo-hyun a postcard to mail to tell her parents she’s alive ; a new teacher at the school, an American; she is given to him as a wife.<\/div>\n
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Soo-kyung \/ Soo-hyun – The terrorist goes to school, befriends her Japanese teacher, who is about her age;\u00a0Soo-hyun, is to be involved in a terrorist attack on South Korea; travels through Britain and must decide whether to send Kimiko’s postcard; decides not to but keeps the postcard;\u00a0goes on plane and blows it up; is\u00a0captured\u00a0and taken to South Korea, where she realizes everything she was taught was a lie. She killed innocent people. Her only way to atone is to turn over the postcard — but when she tries to, she realizes it has been switched by her partner, as his last gift to her.(?)<\/div>\n
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Roy \/ “Dae Ho” – Soldier at the DMZ; Terrorist attack coincides with riots in South Korea; learns of US role in propping up corrupt South Korean dictators; disgusted with American imperialism, decides to defect; is hailed as hero in NK but soon sees bad side; is given a “Korean” wife, who actually turns out to be Japanese – Kimiko; he is kind to her; they both confess they are prisoners together; she has a dream of uniting her parents again, with their grandchildren; he says he doesn’t think the postcard was delivered because he would have heard of it (timing?); vows to help her find her children<\/div>\n
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Jung Hwa (righteous & rich) \/ Myung Dae (“right and great”) and Myung Hee \/ Myung Ok (“Bright Girl\/Bright Pearl”) – They live with their father and stepmother; famine hits North Korea; their mother is a spy on their father and stops them from escaping North Korea; their father is disappeared; they are taken to the hills and abandoned. They decide they must leave for China; start the journey, two among thousands of homeless beggars; cross the river; arrive in China; are betrayed and sold back to North Korea<\/div>\n
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The Winter River<\/div>\n
Language of the Fox People<\/div>\n
Frog in a Well<\/div>\n
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* * * 80,000 words four story lines 20,000 words each * * * Two children orphaned by the famine Japanese girl kidnapped by North Korea, forced to teach English American soldier who defects North Korean spy * * * Kimiko (“Empress”) – Walking to school and is kidnapped by strange men, taken on boat; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}