I Sell My Daughter for 100 Won and Other Stories from North Korea
July 1st, 2012
A former North Korean propagandist now tries to persuade the rest of the world to condemn the bellicose regime for the misery it has brought to its own people:
Jang’s poems now tell of public executions, hunger and desperate lives. He said that the piece he chose to submit to London’s Poetry Parnassus festival, “I Sell My Daughter for 100 Won,” is based on one of his worst memories in North Korea - recollections of a mother trying to sell her daughter in the market place.






