10/15/2024
“Some of them were able to escape, but most struggled in North Korea. Their plight and incredible resilience should be acknowledged by the international community at large. Their struggle should serve as a stark reminder of the long-lasting consequences of political agendas and societal pressures on the lives of civilians.” - Jheel Doshi.
Our latest archive highlight is a piece by Jheel Doshi, a third-year undergraduate student at O.P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat, Haryana, India, pursuing a B.A. in Economics. Her article provides the historical background behind geopolitical strife in repatriating ethnic Koreans from Japan to North Korea (a program that ended in 1984), showing the movement’s dark underbelly in discrimination amid positive propaganda projecting North Korea as a “socialist paradise.”
Consider submitting your own piece to yalejournal.org/submissions/ by this Friday, October 18th, at 11:59pm ET.