Posted on 11/21/2017 4:02:33 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Something similar, but not the same...
I Love Glorious Leader.
They opened up on him pretty good. Lucky to be alive. And especially on the other side of the line!
Maybe he was thinking, “Got to take a chance...If the bullets don’t get me, the worms will.”
“I tgought NK was a paradise? Why would he want to escape?”.....
Seems I read somewhere he thought the food was better south of the border.
It will be interesting to learn the soldier’s rank and unit of assignment. In NK, the military is better fed than the general population, though “better” is a relative term. Likewise, if you’re a member of an elite unit, you receive additional rations.
The defector had access to a jeep, indicating he was a driver for a senior officer, or had sufficient rank/authority to enter the motor pool and sign out a vehicle. Given his age, I’m guessing he was a driver, but even a junior enlisted solider in that capacity is carefully screened. It’s a fair bet that the authorities who cleared him for driver duty and assignment to a unit near the DMZ will be among the first to be executed.
Amazingly, this guy was probably better fed than other NK soldiers and vast majority of civilians outside Pyongyang. During the NK famine of the 1990s and the early years of the last decade, the typical civilian was existing on about 700 grams of rice a day. If they got a piece of fish two times a week, they were doing well. And there were countless reports of peasants eating grass in an effort to survive.
After 70 years socialist utopia, NK has produced a population that, on average, is 5-6 inches shorter and 30-40 pounds lighter than the average South Korean. And it’s all a matter of adequate diet and health care. If the defector was infested with parasites, you can imagine the condition of the typical peasant.
Worms?
I think those are auxilIary intestines necessary to digest grass and bark
That poor doctor didn’t even have time to change clothes, I guess. Still wearing his lab coat, hat, and badges... Where are his gloves? Didn’t he know this big presentation was coming?? :)
He escaped the hellhole - that's all that matters.
He escaped the hellhole - that's all that matters.
[He will be known as the guy who got all his relatives fed to hungry dogs.]
It might not be that quick. I wish I never read Escape from Camp 14.
Maybe someone should do a crowdfunding thing for him - help him get a wife and help him overcome the horrors of living in the world's hellhole outhouse.
The condition of this Sargent, without the bullet wounds, evidences the military is in poor health... he also had hepatitis B... and its believed at 1/2 North Korea's population is likely to have parasites....People who have parasites are not healthy.
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