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Monday, November 22, 2010
Nothing to Envy - Ordinary Lives in North Korea
After hours and hours and HOURS of our modem being out, I can finally post this. (by the way, I HATE YOU, AT&T!) I lied, it keeps going out. Arrrgghhh! I will write in Notepad and save it.
I thought considering what was going on in the world, a 30 second review of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea was timely. Leigh-Ann read the book before I did, and when I told her about N. Korea firing on S. Korea, she said she figured that N. Korea once again had something to hide, so they were trying divert attention away from some new (or old, I suppose) awful thing going on there.
When I started the book, I probably knew what the average American knows about North Korea. Kim Yong-Il and his funny glasses, his (former) love of movies, the scary nuclear stuff, etc. What I didn’t know was that because they spend so much money on weapons, they don’t have electricity, internet, food, healthcare, and on and on. And, the citizens there have no idea what’s going on outside their little circle of life. Many of them are starving to death, eating weeds and ground corn husks, and other practically inedible stuff. The propaganda is EVERYWHERE. In fact, everything most citizens hear is propaganda. They have no idea what’s going on in the rest of the world - even less than the average American. HaHa.
Since this is only a thirty second book review, I’m going to finish this up with telling you that the book is fascinating, and even if you only have the tiniest bit of interest in North Korea, you should read it.
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