NKN 009 Shifting North Korean Awareness Of South Korea by NKNews.org Podcast published on 2014-09-30T02:35:45Z DVDs and USBs have done a lot to defuse the scary tales North Korea once told its people about the South, to keep them grateful they were living above the 38th parallel. But as Professor Andrei Lankov explains, simple perceptiveness and the willingness to (silently) pose questions had a lot to do with it as well. Genre North Korea