North Korea - heard of that little country in East Asia, right? Do you have any idea about what happens in this tiny country? Well, I've recently bought a book describing the real live in North Korea, as told by fugitives from the terror in there. "Nothing to Envy" by Barbara Demick is a one of a kind description of the daily lives in there, and the atrocities that have occured there, especially in the 90's, when due to the collapse of the USSR, North Korea has lost its main and sole patron and stop functioning. Literally.
If you type "the world at night" you'll find a map of the globe as seen by a sattelite with magnificant lights illuminating more developed places, especially the more populated ones. But in the north-east of china you'll see a tiny island, west of japan - that's South Korea. And that's no island. North Korea is simply dark. One of the worst sounding places to live at, in North Korea there is no future to pursue. All you have to think of in order to survive is the next meal. You walk by the dead and become accustomed to the smell, and even though you'll be executed if found, you'll break any foolish rule there is in this country, and steal, sneak and trade for profit - do all you can to get food.
The main difference between North Korea and other under-developed countries is that there are no ethnic disputes. There is no caos, and people remain human even in their hunger. But The government does everything in it's power to provoke caos, to seed fear and imprison those who are actually innocent and had done nothing wrong, but to try to live despite the govrnment's unintentional attempt to starve theme (they refuse to recieve help and refuse to restore their economy by allowing free market, and eventually causing hunger).
No, we have nothing to envy in North Korea. But the problem is - that we don't seem to even care about that.
The spring's here, but for so many it's dark and cold,
and in their windy cities - in hunger they crawl...
