Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity

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She took a leap of faith and had to adjust to life outside of North Korea in a capitalist society, while reconciling the legacy of her two parents. There are people in North Korea who know that this is not the right way to live,” she said in an interview with Reuters. “I don’t think it’s going to collapse easily.” I was so scared. I thought "oh my god, it's an American". My palms were sweating and I just started to run. He was shouting "hey, stop! I'm not going to eat you".' She recalls rumours in 1989 of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement and subsequent massacre in Beijing reaching the hallways of North Korean colleges.

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How I unintentionally ended up spending 15 years of my life in North Korea". NK News - North Korea News. 21 February 2014. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023 . Retrieved 20 November 2021. In 2017, keen to know more about politics and her own past, Macias left the hotel and enrolled in an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy at Soas, University of London. For her dissertation she interviewed over 300 people, many of them from Equatorial Guinea, about her father. Years ago, she had been furious when a journalist accused her of “struggling to condemn” the atrocities committed by her father and Kim. Francisco Macias Nguema is accused of killing 50,000 of his countrymen and forcing over 100,000 people into exile. But Macias was mistrustful of second-hand information and had only vague memories of the man: before she could condemn him, she needed to know the role he played in his country’s violent past.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 5,120 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization. a b "Equatorial Guinea Reports Coup". The New York Times. Associated Press. 6 August 1979. p.1. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023 . Retrieved 30 August 2021.

Growing up as a Black girl from Pyongyang – gal-dem

She said: ' Although North and South say they want unification, they don't actually know each other as people. If we want unification, we have to bury prejudice.' At university she discovered literature. She mostly read the Russian classics but found Korean translations of Jane Austen and Shakespeare, too. She couldn’t finish reading Hamlet, because the parallels with her own life were too disturbing. “But what it showed me is my story isn’t the only one. It won’t be the first, nor the last one. It’s just one story of human society,” she said.John B. Quigley (2006) The Genocide Convention: An International Law Analysis, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd, ISBN 0-7546-4730-7. p.31, 32 Born in EG, Monica was sent to Pyongyang at age of 6 to study, where she graduated as a textile engineer. After many years of living in societies with different cultures and political ideologies, she had decided to put her empirical knowledge into academic context and received her Masters in International Relations and Diplomacy from SOAS, London, UK. In 2013, Monica’s biography “I’m Monica from Pyongyang” was published in Korean in Seoul, South Korea and received excellent critique from local literature. The book describes Monica Macias’ life journey from her childhood, adolescence and a part of her adulthood in Pyongyang, North Korea to the time that she spent in the UK.