‘I repeatedly failed to win any awards’: my doomed career as a North Korean novelist

Kim Ju-sŏng, an aspiring writer in North Korea, shares their doomed career as a novelist in the hermit kingdom. The podcast covers topics such as the intricate process of artistic production in North Korea, forbidden novels and risky obsessions, a surprising encounter at a party official's home, the uncertain fate of handwritten copies, and the speaker's failed career as a novelist