Trading Ideals for Sustenance

Los Angeles Times Barbara Demick 7/4/2005 For most of her life, Kim Hui Suk had spouted the sayings of North Korea’s founder Kim Il Sung and never for a moment harbored a doubt: Capitalists were the enemy. Individualism was evil. But then disaster rained down on her hometown, Chongjin, on North Korea’s remote east coast. … Continue reading Trading Ideals for Sustenance