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Frankly, My Dear, North Koreans Give a Damn About ‘Gone with the Wind’

North Koreans are a mystery. And that’s perhaps why whenever we see brief glimpses of their wacky roller coasters or their version of “Gangnam Style,” we immediately add those details to our still-developing profiles of these mystery people. We’re still digesting the news today that North Koreans really love Gone with the Wind.The AP’s Tim Sullivan tries to make sense of it all, throwing all kinds of theories up against the wall, from a narrative of how antebellum life in Atlanta is like Pyongyang, to stories of secret feminism, to a slave narrative. “In North Korea only the strong survive … That’s the most compelling message of the novel,” a former NoKo black marketer told Sullivan. ”The weak perish in `Gone With the Wind,’ … That is something that North Koreans understand,” he added. Okay, we’ll buy that. 

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