[TigerLikesRooster]

One man's personal recount of his disillusionment with N. Korean reigme, written in a letter format.

[TigerLikesRooster]

My translation of the original article in Korean.

[Miss Marple]

When they say people are starving in North Korea, it is rather abstract, since we have no experience with it.

This letter illustrates the horror of the situation.

[paulsy]

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[RightOnline]

Until or unless the military of N. Korea decide to turn on their Glorious Leader and string his fat, sorry ass from a street lamp, that country is doomed to mass starvation or even more unimaginable horrors. It really, truly is just that simple.

[Nitro]

North Korea is not a country...

it's a cult!!

[IronJack]

Does anyone know WHY N. Korea is starving? I mean, is it the usual communist bureaucratic corruption and inefficiency? Is it nationalization of private property and the accompanying death of individual incentive? Is Kim Sung-Il confiscating grain and foodstuffs and hoarding them as weapons of control? Is it just natural occurrences like drought and flood?

I've heard a lot of talk about hunger and privation in that country, and it's always laid at the doorstep of the president. But nobody ever explains why it should be.

[Peach]

What an unbearably sad situation. America is probably the only nation in the world where even the poor people are fat; we just don't understand what desperately poor people go through in other countries.

[Jonathon Spectre]

All the sadness of the world ping.

[MeekOneGOP]

A short letter, and a worthy read, imho. . .


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[Texas_Jarhead]

interesting and sad. thanks

[McGavin999]

That's a heartbreaking story, thank you for translating it for us. What really makes me mad is there is no reason for those people to be starving. The line between North and South Korea is an imaginary line. The only thing that make it different is the leaders.

So much aid has been sent and ended up in the wrong hands, allowing hungry people to starve. Just when is it going to end?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Sawdring]

Thanks for the translation. Great article, too bad no one in N. Korea has the internet except the top guy in the zipper suit.