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

by Masaji Ishikawa

“If you go to North Korea, you will be able to obtain everything you need.” That was blind faith for you.

Let me tell you what we were taught in school in North Korea. “People in South Korea can only survive by stealing things and selling their blood.” The irony!

People in North Korea spend so much time in study meetings and calculating the number of hours they’ve worked that there’s no time to do the actual work. The result? Raw materials don’t arrive in factories, the electricity doesn’t work, and farms are overrun with weeds.