13. Line up the fold of one of the signatures with your cover and lightly mark where the holes should be. Punch with an awl (fig. K). Use a page from this signature as a guide to punch the holes in the other signatures. Fold and press again.

12. Assemble your signatures as shown in figure J (six sets of three pages) and put them under something heavy, such as a stack of books, to press them.

Kang Chol Hwan, a North Korean defector and writer whose grandfather was arrested in Pyongyang for "political crimes" in 1977, when Kang was nine. Despite his age, Kang was imprisoned with the rest of his grandfather's household in the Yodok labor camp for ten years. "Everybody in North Korea lives in fear of being arrested and sent to a labor camp," Kang says. "Russia and China have both changed, and North Korea is captured between them. The only way the leaders maintain power is through fear."

The cover of a biography of a Korean professional wrestler who performed in the United States in the early 1950s, while the Korean War was being fought. The DPRK-published memoir is an example of state-translated North Korean writing.

The Joint Security Area between North and South Korea.

The border of Dandong, China, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

The statue of a calligraphy brush in Seoul, South Korea.

10. Printing the pages in the correct order and orientation is tricky and takes patience. First print all the even-numbered pages. Then print the odd-numbered pages on the backsides of the even numbered pages (this is where the page numbers in the headers come in handy). Do this in batches of three—if you make a mistake, it’s less daunting to correct three pages than all thirty-six. Check that your pages will feed through the printer in the correct order and in the correct orientation (page 1 should print on the back

The shell of a bomb dropped along the
Yalu River during the Korean War.

9. Remove the lines around the boxes by holding down Shift and clicking on all the boxes; double click on the outer edge of one of them, which brings up the Format Text Box menu; under the Colors and Lines tab, select Line > Color > No line (fig. H).