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A man with a recent degree in Agriculture from the University of Berlin, Hermann came to Canada in 1930 to escape inflation and lack of jobs in Germany. A chance encounter led him to the North and a job prospecting for gold. He fell in love with the North like so many others had done before him. In 1939 the declaration of war against Germany stopped all searches for gold in the North. Suddenly other minerals were more important. This brought all the gold prospectors to Edmonton from the North and there were many more men than jobs. Hermann, his wife, and little daughter moved ‘back’ to Montreal where he was hoping to find a job. Fortunately, through a friend of a friend, he did land a job at an alloy-producing plant in Beauharnois, Quebec near Montreal. The first job was as a ‘stoker’ on a platform above the huge vats of molten metal, stirring the mass which would be used to make armoured steel for vehicles and tanks, for the Canadian Armed Forces. He worked at St. Lawrence Alloys as a Stores Keeper and then as the Purchasing Agent, until he retired in 1968. He died in 1970, never having returned to the North which he loved so well. This is his story in his own words.
During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens - perhaps hundreds - of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos and forced to live in 'Invitation Only Zones', high-security detention-centres masked as exclusive areas, on the outskirts of Pyongyang. The objective? To brainwash the abductees with the regime's ideology, and train them to spy on the state's behalf. But the project faltered; when indoctrination failed, the captives were forced to teach North Korean operatives how to pass as Japanese, to help them infiltrate hostile neighbouring nations. For years, the Japanese and North Korean authorities brushed off these disappearances, but in 2002 Kim Jong Il admitted to kidnapping thirteen citizens, returning five of them - the remaining eight were declared dead. In The Invitation Only Zone, Boynton, an investigative journalist, speaks with the abductees, nationalists and diplomats, and crab fishermen, to try and untangle both the kidnappings and the intensely complicated relations between North Korea and Japan. The result is a fierce and fascinating exploration of North Korea's mysterious machinations, and the vexed politics of Northeast Asia.
When international lecturer Clifton Taulbert receives an unexpected invitation to supper in Allendale, South Carolina, he brings with him Little Cliff, the colored boy from the Mississippi Delta who is also Clifton Taulbert, carrying all he was taught as a child about staying "in his place" and surviving in the Jim Crow South.Transported back into a setting that looks and feels like the cotton fields and shotgun shacks of his childhood, Taulbert finds himself expected to cross racial barriers he would have been forbidden to cross before. The Invitation is the story of the man and the little boy inside him wrestling with a past they both know so well, while stepping into a future that is still being determined
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A bizarre, little-known tale about the most secretive culture on earth For decades, North Korea denied any part in the disappearance of dozens of Japanese citizens from Japan’s coastal towns and cities in the late 1970s. But in 2002, with his country on the brink of collapse, Kim Jong-il admitted to the kidnapping of thirteen people and returned five of them in hopes of receiving Japanese aid. As part of a global espionage project, the regime had attempted to reeducate these abductees and make them spy on its behalf. When the scheme faltered, the captives were forced to teach Japanese to North Korean spies and make lives for themselves, marrying, having children, and posing as North Korean civilians in guarded communities known as “Invitation-Only Zones”—the fiction being that they were exclusive enclaves, not prisons. From the moment Robert S. Boynton saw a photograph of these men and women, he became obsessed with their story. Torn from their homes as young adults, living for a quarter century in a strange and hostile country, they were returned with little more than an apology from the secretive regime. In The Invitation-Only Zone, Boynton untangles the bizarre logic behind the abductions. Drawing on extensive interviews with the abductees, Boynton reconstructs the story of their lives inside North Korea and ponders the existential toll the episode has had on them, and on Japan itself. He speaks with nationalists, spies, defectors, diplomats, abductees, and even crab fishermen, exploring the cultural and racial tensions between Korea and Japan that have festered for more than a century. A deeply reported, thoroughly researched book, The Invitation-Only Zone is a riveting story of East Asian politics and of the tragic human consequences of North Korea’s zealous attempt to remain relevant in the modern world.
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Nine Human Subconscious Stories Evoked my senses1.An Invitation to the North PoleA charming lady from Alaska comes to the Middle-East Area to find out the secrets of wars taking place all the times. She had a conversation with somebody she believes he knows, but he does not. She became, together with her ethics, the dream of paradise on a very demanding condition. It was a meeting between two different worlds in a very challenging Ideas and behavior.2.The Plant of HappinessThere are still a lot of secrets in plants. One of them is that they can recognize and distinguish the characters of their owners. Here they flourish, and there they die.3.Peaches and CherriesWhen the land becomes dry the people leave the place to the unknown. A new place is a new school. The school cannot change the rooted principals of A man. How many of the migrating birds come back and how many they stay? What is that motive that force them to come back? Is love the first factor? Can a person be fertile only in the place he was born?! 4.The Legend of the BustardThose who love humanity suffer a lot in this world. The emigrant swallow of Oscar Wild helped the poor ones, but he suffered because of that. The symbol of humanity according to the "Bustard" will supersede the bird of Oscar Wild.5.Bird FeathersWe fight because everybody of us wants to gain at the time our greedy collides. The surprise is that a third party, which was not counted at all, interfere in our fight. The more severe is the fight when it is for freedom.6.A Girl from my CountryIt is not up normal when you are sixty years old and live the dreams of your childhood love as if it were today. It may be your condolence at the difficult times, especially when you are hopeless and helpless.7.The Rocks- "I never imagined that we had turned into rocks like these mountains, and into a desert-like this earth, dear father! You made me a romantic poet, and the war broke me into stones." It is when a father wants to cheer up his sad daughter and he is sadder than her! He knows that the rocks cover their lives, but still he tries to convince her that the freshwater will break out in spring from under the rocks.8.ComaAt that state when you refuse the facts to the extent you want to die, but you love happiness with your lost love, at that state, the best solution to your dilemma is to be lost in a dream, a vision, or maybe a coma. 9.Goodbye to the Great love.-Salma! Be smart! put on a perfume we bought at the time of the wedding. I want to feel that night back.- The night of the wedding, Salem? You were concerned about the blood drops of defloration. Isn't it enough blood? I was scared.- What do you want, darling?- I simply want to dream that fear is over. And that the pain is gone, that hope exists, and the day of birth will be the joy of the homeland. What do you think?.... The old father found his way out of the tragedy of war after he lost most of the members of his family... The son and his beloved wife were trapped in.Although the love was so great, nobody cared, until the two lovers are gone forever, exactly like the homeland.The seeds were still there waiting for the spring to come.