'North Korea is often seen as something of a joke: a strange, secretive place in the grip of cartoon communism and under the thumb of crazed dictators.' Photograph: Kcna/Reuters
North Korea Is Treated As A Joke – But Its Realities Are Deadly Serious -- Ian Birrel, The Guardian
Behind the military parades and Kim Jong-un's bizarre posturing is a repressive regime that the world can no longer ignore
Kim Song-ju sought to escape the living hell of North Korea, but after crossing a freezing river into China was returned, like so many other defectors. He was sent to a prison camp, where he shared – with 40 other unfortunates – a cramped cell that had to be entered on all fours through a tiny door less than two feet high. They were starved – their watery soup often containing stones – and routinely beaten by guards, who told them they were no longer human.
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