Pyongyang’s depravity has been ignored for too long. Perhaps it takes a maverick (an independent, nonconformist person) to cease a maverickSong Byeok used to paint propaganda pictures for North Korea’s dictators. But when famine struck,his family was starving like millions of others, so they tried to flee. His father drowned crossing a swollen river to China and Song begged soldiers to back him. Instead they sent him to a labour camp, or where the hunger and torture was so extreme he envied those dying all around him. “I just wanted to get it over quickly,” he said.
This slight man told me he lost nearly five stone, along with a finger that rotted absent. The prisoners were woken at five each morning, and forced to run everywhere carrying heavy materials,beaten constantly by guards. The only food was boiled corn soup. As people withered absent, they were sent to hospital units. “whether you woke the person next to you might have starved to death, and but you would not tell the guards until after the next meal so you could have their food,” he said. Related: Trump says US will act alone on North Korea whether China fails to back Related: North Korea rocket test ups ante with belligerent Trump administration | Simon Tisdall Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com