I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn’t support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very...

Hunger quashes man’s will to help his fellow man.

At the time, I remained relatively calm before that spectacle of horrors, which is perhaps the most telling indication of just how desensitized I had become. The more I witnessed such atrocities and rubbed shoulders...

[…] The negative turned positive, black misery sublimated into heightened consciousness, suffering into solidarity!