Hello, I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. I am working on my dissertation on Soviet and North Korean children's literature. I am interested in translation, visual arts, illustration and poster in the Soviet Union and North Korea. Everyone can assume that the Soviet Union and North Korea shared a close political relationship. And, it’s reasonable to assume a correlation between their literatures, also. However, the specific details regarding how the two countries interpreted, modified, distorted, or assimilated each other’s literary elements – especially in children’s literature – remain largely uncharted. Answering these questions is the aim of my project.