CBS Reporter Feels Safer In North Korea Than Trump’s White House

Life in a North Korean Labor Camp: ‘No Thinking … Just Fear’

NBCNews–“At Jungeori, there was no sense of being human, if you thought you were a human being, you couldn’t live there,” said Kim, who is now aged 33. “You were like an animal. You do the hard labor you were ordered to do, that’s it. No thinking. No free will. Just fear.”

As his 4-foot, 9-inch frame withered away, Kim became obsessed with just one thing: food.

“Because you were so hungry, you thought about food and how to get more of it all the time,” Kim recalled. “Sometimes you got lucky and you were able to catch a rat or two as a snack, which you’d skin, dry the meat out and eat, usually raw. If you tried to cook the rats, the guards would smell the meat or fire, catch you and beat you mercilessly.”

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