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We ate rice three times a day and meat two or three times a month. We had money for medical emergencies, new shoes, and things like shampoo and toothpaste that were beyond the means of ordinary North Koreans. We still didn’t have a telephone, car, or motorbike, but our lives seemed very luxurious to our friends and neighbors.

One of the big problems in North Korea was a fertilizer shortage. When the economy collapsed in the 1990s, the Soviet Union stopped sending fertilizer to us and our own factories stopped producing it...
...the government came up with a campaign to fill the fertilizer gap with a local and renewable source: human and animal waste. Every worker
and schoolchild had a quota to fill.

I know that it is possible to lose part of your humanity in order to survive. But I also know that the spark of human dignity is never completely extinguished, and that given the oxygen of freedom and the power of love, it can grow again.
This is my story of the choices I made in order to live.

Jesus amado...
Sabia que a vida na coreia do norte er horrível, mas não imaginava que era pior do que eu imaginava!
O simples facto de as pessoas terem de comer insetos e comida estragada para poderem sobreviver é chocante.
O contraste da vida de um cidadão na Coreia do Norte e a vida de um cidadão numa sociedade "Ocidental" que teve alguma influência dos EUA é chocante.