The Reluctant Communist
“Perhaps millions of North Koreans have already starved to death since famines began hitting the country in the mid-1990s, and a huge percentage of the country’s citizens still live with the constant torture of not having enough food to eat or clean water to drink. In addition, many hundreds of thousands, if not more, have been worked to death and are still being worked to death in the nation’s prisons and gulags. Our situation, it is true, was never remotely that dire. We always had a shelter a...nd never went without food for more than a day or two. But even so, the life we lived was never easy, and our “privileged” existence here would have been considered unspeakable in much of the rest of the world. Our battles with cold, hunger, thirst, poverty, and inadequate sanitation were constant, day in and day out, year in and year out.I can begin with the cold, since that is the thing that I can still feel deep down in my bones. Our apartment building had a heating system, but it was a good day when we actually had adequate heat.MoreLess
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