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I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a North Korean guard in Pan Mun Jom back in the Winter of 90/91 - the long and the short of it was that he told me that every home in North Korea had a Soda Machine (we were talking about the can of Coke I was drinking at the time).

More sad than anything else - these guys would spend their days punching a wooden post wrapped with rope during the daytime and then sit shivering under blankets in their guard towers at night - every now and then one of them would come out as I checked the area around our guard posts and talk at me - this was the only time I talked back, and judging from the conversation, I wasn't missing much.