“Kwon Tae-jin, a specialist on North Korean agriculture at the Korea Rural Economic Institute, which is funded by the South Korean government,… — Blaine Harden North korean Copy Share Image
“Shin’s story of survival is different. His mother beat him, and he viewed her as a competitor for food. His father, who… — Blaine Harden Parenting Copy Share Image
“Among the elite in Pyongyang, one of the most coveted signifiers of status is an electric rice cooker.” — Blaine Harden Copy Share Image
“About sixty percent of Shin’s class was assigned to the coal mines, where accidental death from cave-ins, explosions, and gas poisonings was… — Blaine Harden Death Copy Share Image
“I am evolving from being an animal,' he said. 'But it is going very, very slowly. Sometime I try to cry and… — Blaine Harden Humanity Copy Share Image
“Once the imperialist ideological and cultural poisoning is tolerated, even the faith unshakable before the threat of a bayonet will be bound… — Blaine Harden Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to overstate the importance of rice in North Korean culture. It signifies wealth, evokes the closeness of family and… — Blaine Harden North korean Copy Share Image
“Freedom, in Shin's mind, was just another word for grilled meat.” — Blaine Harden Freedom Copy Share Image
“As contemporaries, Shin and Kim Jong Eun personify the antipodes of privilege and privation in North Korea, a nominally classless society where,… — Blaine Harden North korea Copy Share Image
“His teachers, as a result, could shape the minds and values of their students without contradiction from children who might know something… — Blaine Harden Children Copy Share Image
“To identify and isolate his perceived political enemies, Kim Il Sung created a neofeudal, blood-based pecking order in 1957. The government classified… — Blaine Harden Caste system Copy Share Image
“Anyone who steals or conceals any foodstuffs will be shot immediately.” — Blaine Harden Copy Share Image
“There are six camps, according to South Korea’s intelligence agency and human rights groups. The biggest is thirty-one miles long and twenty-five… — Blaine Harden Camping Copy Share Image
“9. Prisoners must genuinely repent of their errors. Anyone who does not acknowledge his sins and instead denies them or carries a… — Blaine Harden Copy Share Image
“Like Nazi concentration camps, labour camps in North Korea use confinement, hunger and fear to create a kind of Skinner box: a… — Blaine Harden Concentration camp Copy Share Image
“And so Shin’s misery never skidded into complete hopelessness. He had no hope to lose, no past to mourn, no pride to… — Blaine Harden Hope Copy Share Image
“Trust among friends was poisoned by constant competition for food and the pressure to snitch. Trying to” — Blaine Harden Friendship Copy Share Image
“ [I]t was in the pairs that the prisoners kept alive the semblance of humanity concluded Elmer Luchterhand, a sociologist at Yale… — Blaine Harden Concentration camp Copy Share Image
“High school students in America debate why President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn’t bomb the rail lines to Hitler’s camps,” the editorial concluded.… — Blaine Harden High school Copy Share Image
“an adolescent’s knowledge of death and evil ‘should be limited to what one discovers in literature’.” — Blaine Harden Books Copy Share Image
“Even South Koreans themselves struggle mightily to fit into their own success-obsessed, status-conscious, education-crazed culture.” — Blaine Harden Copy Share Image
“His professional expertise—before defecting to South Korea in 2003—was managing a state-run global insurance fraud. It collected hundreds of millions of dollars… — Blaine Harden Natural disasters Copy Share Image
“Any witness to an attempted escape who fails to report it will be shot immediately.” — Blaine Harden Copy Share Image
“High School students in America debate why President Roosevelt didn't bomb the rail lines to Hitler's camps. Their children may ask, a… — Blaine Harden High school Copy Share Image
