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**Narus63** · 11-23-2010, 11:31 PM

Yeah, the cruelty is unbelievable. You can be in some distant village and an uncle you haven't seen in 20 years can piss off a local party apparatchik and the next thing you know you and your whole family are chopping and hauling logs in 10 degree weather for 12 hours a day and living off tree bark and toads. And that's considered a "good" camp.

Another measure of just how weird and bizarre the Kim regime is...say...someone hears you make an utterance in English for whatever reason, and reports you to the party. Usually this could land you in a prison camp. But, at some point, you or a relative had the foresight and connections to send the Kim family some money, liquor, or ginseng that you harvested and, as luck would have it, the Kim's sent you an official letter of praise in return. Well, that letter can be entered in as official evidence which, as long as your "crime" isn't too serious (disparaging the Kim's) you might just be reassigned for 6 months of re-education at a local camp rather than have your whole family hauled away to one of the more terminal ones.

11-23-2010, 11:31 PM	#22
Narus63 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 383 Senior Member	Yeah, the cruelty is unbelievable. You can be in some distant village and an uncle you haven't seen in 20 years can piss off a local party apparatchik and the next thing you know you and your whole family are chopping and hauling logs in 10 degree weather for 12 hours a day and living off tree bark and toads. And that's considered a "good" camp. Another measure of just how weird and bizarre the Kim regime is...say...someone hears you make an utterance in English for whatever reason, and reports you to the party. Usually this could land you in a prison camp. But, at some point, you or a relative had the foresight and connections to send the Kim family some money, liquor, or ginseng that you harvested and, as luck would have it, the Kim's sent you an official letter of praise in return. Well, that letter can be entered in as official evidence which, as long as your "crime" isn't too serious (disparaging the Kim's) you might just be reassigned for 6 months of re-education at a local camp rather than have your whole family hauled away to one of the more terminal ones.
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