The Moth Presents: All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown

by Catherine Burns

The horror of North Korea is beyond famine and gulags. To survive there, real human beings have to not only believe in the lies of the Great Leader but also perpetuate them, which is a mental torture. It’s a world where all citizens are complicit in the deprivation of their own humanity.

there have been three generations of the Great Leader, and for seventy years the world has sat back and just watched. To me that silence is indefensible.