A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

by Masaji Ishikawa

permeated

prostrated

repatriation,

Apoplectic.

portend

traipse

forlornly

rictus

denizens

verboten.

profligacy.

consigned

vacuous

intonation

Juche

fastidious,

persona non grata

vagrant

ad nauseam

taciturn

we spent all our time searching and searching for anything remotely edible. We were nothing but a bunch of ravenous ghosts. The barely

ipso facto,