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“Come here,” the man with the ruffled hair says to me. He stands underneath a grey stone archway. It’s begun to rain again. “Do you want to see a hot North Korean soldier?” he asks me, raising his eyebrows. Another temptation. Here we go. I look over at Policewoman Qu, and then check my bearings. There are certainly [...]
My friend, Liu Yi, asks me to join him to go to a section of the Great Wall that I’ve never been to before called Huang Hua Great Wall. We drive there in a car that he rented on the previous day. Besides myself and Liu Yi, the other two people who join us are [...]
As I scrunch my feet up inside my woolen socks, I can still feel grains of sand from a Korean beach rubbing and scratching the spaces between my toes. I’m going back to Beijing. Having only just left Korean soil ten minutes before, I glance outside at the blue day. My eyes wander towards the [...]
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