POV: You Fell Asleep During Kim Jong Un's Private Meeting
Joey in North Korea
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POV: You Fell Asleep During Kim Jong Un's Private Meeting
The fluorescent light above your head has been humming at the same frequency for so long that it has stopped being sound. It has become the texture of the air itself, a thin vibration that sits behind your eyes and behind your teeth and does not stop. The room is eighteen degrees Celsius. It is always eighteen degrees Celsius when the Supreme Leader is present. Not for comfort. Comfort has nothing to do with it. The temperature is protocol, the way the angle of a bow is protocol, the way the exact placement of a pen on a documents table is protocol. Everything in this room is a calculation, including you.
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POV: You Fell Asleep During Kim Jong Un's Private Meeting
Joey in North Korea
1,976 views
POV: You Fell Asleep During Kim Jong Un's Private Meeting
The fluorescent light above your head has been humming at the same frequency for so long that it has stopped being sound. It has become the texture of the air itself, a thin vibration that sits behind your eyes and behind your teeth and does not stop. The room is eighteen degrees Celsius. It is always eighteen degrees Celsius when the Supreme Leader is present. Not for comfort. Comfort has nothing to do with it. The temperature is protocol, the way the angle of a bow is protocol, the way the exact placement of a pen on a documents table is protocol. Everything in this room is a calculation, including you.