Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
This week, North Korea marked 70 years of communist rule.
The government was established with the help of the Soviet Union at the end of World War Two.
North Korea has been isolated ever since, sealed-off from the South by a heavily-guarded barrier known as the DMZ or Demilitarized Zone.
But for Koreans on both sides, the divide is not just physical. There's now a wide cultural gap as well.
, director of the USC Korean Studies Institute, joined the show to explain more.