Adjusting itself: New book emphasizes the female resistance in Korea from Kim Jong un.

North Korea demands women to serve only as a dutiful women and mothers without personal identity. A new book “Women Are Not Dead”, Chronicles Seol Song-AS Fight against this oppression and her life after escaping.

Two topics penetrate the book: marketing and women's rights. Due to the market activities and the repeated survey of the system, the author kept her dignity despite state control, whereby she ultimately transferred to South Korea, where she now works as a journalist and researcher and at the same time processes her trauma.

As with many North Korean women, the author should earn money with market activities to pay taxes to the state, to serve her husband and raise her children as a loyal revolutionaries. However, she continuously questioned the system and desperately fought to maintain her dignity as a person and as a woman.

The author lively describes the reality of female life in North Korea and conveys a powerful message about the country's absurdities through her experiences with oppression, discrimination and the process of overcoming.

Two topics penetrate the book: “North Korean marketing” and “Progress of women's rights”. The author makes readers think of how these factors influenced each other. A particularly remarkable moment comes in which part of them instructed them “our owner” and let them realize that the markets have given birth to a new social class.

Through her life in North Korea's emerging market economy, the author emphasizes the importance of independence and self -fulfillment of women and essentially explains that “female subordination is not a fate”.

Their shattering survival story includes the collapse of their carefully built “Penicillin Business” because the North Korean authorities are enclosed. This offers insights into the desperate circumstances that women in North Korea are confronted with today, since market restrictions and COVID-19 closures have reduced both the markets and the social status of women.

The author demonstrates her determination to change her own fate through several trips to China to apply for money from relatives, and her passionate striving for market -related education. These passages show the expansion of their self -identity, which only because she was a woman.

By presenting their ultimate decision, despite numerous obstacles and their later challenges in a new society, the author allows readers to observe how North Korean women push the mere survival and strive for a meaningful life.

The author now works in South Korea as a journalist about the life of the North Korean women as well as researchers, writers and lecturers and emphasizes that “North Korean women are those who question themselves and have not adapted to their environment”.

It openly admits that she still overcomes deep internal trauma. She sends a message of hope to oppressed North Korean women: “Women are not dead.”

This book serves as a valuable testimony that reveals the ongoing structural problems of the North Korean regime through the author's personal narrative.

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