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41 " Prima di qualsiasi altra cosa Shin imparò a sopravvivere denunciando e tradendo ognuno di loro. Amore, pietà e famiglia erano parole prive di significato. Di onon era né morto né scomparso: Shin semplicemente non lo aveva mai sentito nominare. "
― Blaine Harden , Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
42 " La gente nel pubblico non riusciva a star femra nei banchi: negli occhi si leggevano disagio, disgusto, rabbia, shock. Alcuni volti erano rigati di lacrime. Alla fine del discorso, quando Shin disse che un solo uomo che decida di non tacere può contribuire alla liberazione di decine di migliaia di persone ancora prigioniere, la chiesa esplose in un applauso. Magari non ancora nella sua vita, ma almeno in quel discorso Shin aveva preso il controllo del suo passato. "
43 " Trust among friends was poisoned by constant competition for food and the pressure to snitch. Trying to "
44 " Defectors frequently quit jobs found for them by the government and start businesses that fail. Some newcomers are disgusted by what they see as the decadence and inequality of life in the South. So to find employers who will put up with the prickliness of newcomers from the North, the Ministry of Unification pays companies up to eighteen hundred dollars a year if they risk hiring a defector. "
45 " Shin and many other North Korean defectors complain, with considerable justification, that South Koreans view them as ill-educated, badly spoken and poorly dressed bumpkins whose mess of a country is more trouble than it’s worth. "
46 " It is just a matter of time,’ Shin told me, before North Korea decides to destroy the camps. ‘I hope that the United States, through pressure and persuasion, can convince [the North Korean government] not to murder all those people in the camps. "
47 " Any witness to an attempted escape who fails to report it will be shot immediately. "
48 " Establishing juche means, in a nutshell, being the master of revolution and reconstruction in one’s own country. This means holding fast to an independent position, rejecting dependence on others, using one’s own brains, believing in one’s own strength, displaying the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance, and thus solving one’s own problems for oneself on one’s own responsibility under all circumstances. "
49 " governo nordcoreano. Per evitare che maledicesse lo Stato che lo stava privando della sua stessa vita, al prigioniero fu riempita la bocca di sassi e poi gli fu coperta la testa con un cappuccio. "
50 " Once the imperialist ideological and cultural poisoning is tolerated, even the faith unshakable before the threat of a bayonet will be bound to give in like a wet mud-wall. "
51 " Long Road Home, "
52 " Kwon Tae-jin, a specialist on North Korean agriculture at the Korea Rural Economic Institute, which is funded by the South Korean government, told me in Seoul. In the far north, where food supplies are historically lean and farmers are regarded as politically hostile, the military takes a quarter of total grain production, Kwon "