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by Laurence E. Dahners

A final note, North Korea is, if anything, much worse than it’s depicted in this story. Their penal labor camps (read about them on Wikipedia) don’t gas people like the Nazis did, they work them, starve them, beat them, torture them, and rape them. Their prisoners die—fairly quickly—and one can’t help wondering if they might have preferred to have been gassed.

  Acknowledgements

  I would like to acknowledge the editing and advice of Nora Dahners, Gail Gilman, Elene Trull, Allen Dietz, Hamilton Elliott, Jack Hudler, Kat Lind, and Kerry McIntyre, each of whom significantly improved this story.