Beloved Comrade

Sun has been shining. The best winter days are in January and February, the whiteness blinds eyes.

I've been working at the library for 2 days now. I'm a professional librarian, but due to the small amount of work places I haven't found a permanent job. So I'm working at the library as a substitute if someone gets sick or something. At the same time I'm thinking of studying something else though...I should only decide what I want to do!

It's impossible to work at the library without glancing at the removed books. Yesterday I made the perfect discovery -> The book is called "Korean review" and it looks very innocent (see the photo above, the book looks alluring together with a big pack of candies!). When you open the pages you find out something is a bit twisted in here.

One text example explains it all : "The capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is Pyongyang. Here in this city, more than 1500 years old, is located Mangyongdae, the historic place where the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung was born and spent his childhood. Pyongyang is the heart of revolution and the glorious capital of socialist Korea. In Pyongyang resides the respected and beloved Comrade Kim Il Sung, the revolutionary genius, ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander and tender-hearted father of the people".

The book also has interesting headlines like "South Korea under the occupation of US imperialism" and "The great fatherland liberation war". Text tells about the great success of beloved Comrade Kim Il Sung's Juche idea, how it affects North Korea and how South Korea "is internationally known as a kingdom of tuberculosis and a kingdom of disease". I haven't read the whole book, but that's my plan for this week! This kind of propaganda can teach me a lot about history of dictatures and also about North Korea's present.

And I'm very lucky to find this kind of comical book from the library for free ;) But I have to wonder who took this book to the library collection in the first place and why it has been removed not until now!

I've been very lazy and I haven't cleaned in a long time. When I get home from work after 8.30pm, I'm too tired to do anything. I'm waiting for free and sunny days, when I can just hang out in my nightgown for the whole day!

Mind empty, me bed wake up morning tired.