02048cam a2200421 i 4500 441591554 TxAuBib 20201009120000.0 140627s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014012730 9780307720658 0307720659 9780307720665 0307720667 (OCoLC)869262332 TxAuBib rda Kim, Suki, 1970- Without you, there is no us : my time with the sons of North Korea's elite / Suki Kim. First edition. New York : Crown Publishers, [2014] 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A memoir"--Jacket. "A ... memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign"--Amazon.com. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields-- except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room. Suki Kim offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves.". Purchased by the Harorld Ellsworth, 1930, and Laura D. Ellsworth, 1931, Book Fund. 20201009. Kim, Suki, 1970- English teachers Korea (North) Biography. Elite (Social sciences) Korea (North.) Education and state Korea (North.) Autobiography. Korea (North) Politics and government 2011- Korea (North) Social conditions 21st century. Autobiographies.