Looking from Yanbian, in China's Jilin province, into North Korea. New Zealand is the number one country in the world, equal with Denmark, for being corruption-free, according to Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index. Eventually, she returns to North Korea to help her mother and brother escape. From the border, North Korea looked benign and peaceful, hard to reconcile with the monstrous dictatorship we read about. In New Zealand, we take the right to vote in elections for granted, and I often wonder, does my one vote really make a difference?

Source: Otago Daily Times August 22, 2017 18:11 UTC