http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/16/world/asia/north-korea-un-report/index.html
“One witness said that young male inmates in North Korean prison camps became so desperate for food they would eat live worms or snakes caught in the field to feel something in their stomachs.”
Miller won’t get special treatment on account of being American.
He’s lucky he didn’t get Kim Jong Il’s bullet in the neck. That would have been mercy.
"We finished our work and we were about to pick up this grass or the plant that we knew we could eat," Jee told the commission. "And then the guards saw us, and he came running and he stepped on our hands and then he brought us to this place and he told us to kneel."
They were forced to eat the grass along with the root and the soil as punishment. Kim became increasingly sick with diarrhea after eating the soil.