Thanks Xan for your private suggestion for a story regarding Korea. I hope that you don't mind me replying publicly but I've been unable to respond privately to any of your recent e-mails because your in-box seems to be continuously full. You must be very popular!

I'd greatly appreciate further elaboration about your idea. For example, era?

I could presume that you're suggesting present day North Korea but don't want to take the chance that I'm wrong.

PUEROS

Thanks- I tried to write my own story on the subject. Until I read recent articles both over the internet, and on the news about the prison slave camps I was unaware about the lack of human rights going on. I was surprised that no one has written about the subject. My own story was rather cold, as the main character did not really relate to the culture, he could only see it through his own eyes, as we do when we judge another. So my story is really just a sketch.

I guess we live increasing in a world where each life affects another.