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“North Korea is a famine state. In the fields, you can see people picking up loose grains of rice and kernels of corn, gleaning every scrap. They look pinched and exhausted. In the few, dingy restaurants in the city, and even in the few modern hotels, you can read the Pyongyang Times through the soup, or the tea, or the coffee. Morsels of inexplicable fat or gristle are served as duck. One evening I gave in and tried a bowl of dog stew, which at least tasted hearty and spicy—they wouldnt tell me the breed—but then found my appetite crucially diminished by the realization that I hadnt seen a domestic animal, not even the merest cat, in the whole time I was there.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 12:45:39 +0000

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