Essay About Leaving North Korea

“Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far i journey.” - Hyeonseo Lee. This quote is someone from someone who lived in the place i would want to use my ticket to anywhere to. This reason for my decision to such an extreme place would because, little information about it is known, it's a unique place, and it would be very___ to learn the daily lives of the people living there. North Korea an isolated nation. Unlike like other nations in the world North Korea is a communist nation, meaning they are ruled by a single person, a dictator. Their dictator being, Kim Jong Un. Mr. Un is very conservative and doesn’t like other nations knowing about what he is doing in his country. Not only do we know so little about North Korea but the people there know little to non about other nations. To me this makes it mysterious and worth getting to know, many of the people who have come from North Korea or visited it describe it as different and unreal. I would love to have the opportunity to visit such a place and understand the government and just to see how truly different it is compared to what I’m used to.

I mean it in the sense that it’s one of the handful nations in world to be communist. In my point of view I don't believe it’s a “good” unique in the sense people have no freedom, but an interesting one because it’s one of the few to be around. For example in my opening paragraph a woman who lived in North Korea described it as a different universe one she could never forget, this describes how such different it and unusual it is. Many people wouldn’t consider North Korea unique instead they would describe it as extreme, cruel, dangerous, etc. I believe a those characteristics it exhibits is what makes it unique, there is no other country that could compare to