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Completely unrelated question: How has a North Korean girl turned refugee and wife in China learned how to type English so well? North Korean education?

Yes. My Great-Grandfather from my Grandmother mother's side once ran into trouble because of it. I'm from Portugal, and the country had a dictatorship (Somewhat mild in comparison to North Koreas, Nazi Germanies and Soviet Unions) which ran from 1926 to 1974.

Somewhere in the 50's, my Great-Grandfather got in trouble because he and the town's local priest mutually hated each other, so much that the priest thought to get one over him, and decided to falsely report my Great-Grandfather as a Communist (This is in during the Cold War, but then again Fascist dictatorships never had much love for Communists either) to the Portuguese Secret Police called PIDE. The Portuguese dictatorship defended the conservative values of religion, so in their eyes, the priest's testimony was a very credible source.

A couple of days later, at late hours in the morning (3-4 AM), the Portuguese secret police barged into my Great-Grandfathers house, took him from his bed (Suspect communists were always handled the worst of all political prisoners). The major problem for the priest was that my Great-Grandfather and my Great-Grandmother were profound admirers of the dictator António Salazar, so much that their house was filled with Fascist propaganda and pictures and portraits of the dictator. The police returned the very next day to question my Great-Grandmother, which alongside with my Great-Grandfather's interrogation led PIDE to quickly figure out that they had been lied to and my Great-Grandfather was released a couple of days later, with an apology by PIDE (And I think, some confirmation that it had been the priest who had reported him).

Obviously, in a small-ish town, word got around very quickly that my Great-Grandfather had been arrested for being a Communist, and that reputation usually sticks, so you can guess that my Great-Grandfather was fuming at the priest. He was rather quick in threatening that he was going to kill the priest for what he did, and was in such a state of anger, and since the ostracization of them in the community was already taking place, my Great-Grandmother decided to force my Great-Grandfather to move with her to our colony of Angola, before he did something the family would regret.

And their daughter, my still living grandmother met and married by Grandfather in Angola, my mother was born in Angola and met my father (Who was a soldier fighting the Portuguese Colonial War) in Angola, before the coup d'Etat back in Portugal and consequent peace & hasty decolonization which led my parents back to Portugal.

And that's how I came to be. All because my Great-Grandfather was wrong and maliciously reported as a Communist, in a dictatorship. :)

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