north korean woman says titanic "awakened" her    42750/watching-foreign-movies-is-il legal-in-north-korea-but-plenty-do- it-anyway > when yeonmi park was a young girl in north korea's ryanggang province, near the chinese border, she went to her uncle's house to watch tv. but this wasn't the usual state-run broadcast praising the "dear leader." the movie she watched at her uncle's house was illegal. > she covered the windows with blankets, turned the volume down low and huddled in close around the tv. she watched a pirated copy of titanic. > "when i saw that movie for the first time, i was very confused," park says. "i never heard my father telling my mother that he loved her. and my mother never told me she loved me, either. to us, love was only expressed [for] the dear leader. so, it was a very odd concept to me  how can a man love a woman? how can he die for her?" > she also described her feelings about actor leonardo dicaprio, which she said was her first time seeing a blonde, caucasian male. > "he looked so different, so strange," park says. "but so beautiful as well, in a way i didn't know was even possible. as a child, i couldn't believe he was real. i thought he must be an angel of the sky, or a spirit of the sun." > "i don't know if i would ever die for a man," she laughs. "i might consider it for a man like that." western media and culture have been a fucking disaster for the east.
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