<div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I was rather surprised to find Mr. Jang Jin-Sung's, 장진성,(He uses alias to protect his family in North Korea) Op-Ed article not a poem in the paper.</div>

</div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">In the article he describe three different images of the North, specially one perceived much differently on the outside of North Korea. </div>

<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">He also reveals the North's three diplomatic principals each tailored to South Korea, Japan, as well as to the U.S.  All three principals designed to "deceive our people and the world, doing what was necessary to keep our leader in power."</div>

<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Finally, he argues the economic reform taking place now within North Korea, albeit underground, will empower people of North Korea and the empowerment will lead to "a stable transition to new era after the regime eventually goes." </div>

<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Mr. Jang's article:</div>

<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">The Market Shall Set North Korea Free</div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/opinion/global/The-Market-Shall-Set-North-Korea-Free.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y&_r=0" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/opinion/global/The-Market-Shall-Set-North-Korea-Free.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y&_r=0</a></font></div>

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Additionally following three links will give readers a chance to better understand the poet. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">

BBC on Mr. Jang, January 5, 2012</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">The day Kim Jong-il gave me a Rolex</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">

<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16413669" style="font-size:small;font-family:arial" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16413669</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">

<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Associated Press on Mr. Jang, July 1, 2012</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">

Jang Jin-sung Writes of Hunger, Brutality in the Country</div></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/02/jang-jin-sung-north-korea-poet_n_1642710.html" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/02/jang-jin-sung-north-korea-poet_n_1642710.</a>Asia </div>

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The Asia Literary Review*, Spring 2012</div><div style>Mr. Jang's five poems translated into English including the most circulated</div><div style>
<b>"I Am Selling My Daughter for 100 Won" </b></div></div><div><a href="http://www.asialiteraryreview.com/web/article/en/337" target="_blank">http://www.asialiteraryreview.com/web/article/en/337</a></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">

<br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">*<span style>All five poems were translated by Shirley Lee who also translated the above New York Times article.</span></div>

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<span style>Regards, </span></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style><br></span></div>
<div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style>Yoo Kwang-On</span></div>