Evil Enough for You?
"Evil Enough for You?" "Let's eat whatever it is. It's better than
dying. Snakes and rats are excellent for food. If we can eat
a rat, it'll be a lucky day. "Gil Su are committed only because of food. We...
...We so often see them executed for a handful of rice and a few potatoes...
...Hang Il EVIL ENOUGH FOR YOU...
...Life is not worth living...
...Let's hear it for the Worker's Paradise...
...Gil Su Making a false report...
...Gil Su North Korean children are crossing the river risking their lives...
...please don't kill yourself...
...There is a guard standing on the tall watchtower and high voltage wire in the mountain range in Hamgyoung province...
...The world of freedom comes into view...
...Hang Il They are Kochebis, wandering children without parents, living in a cave...
...Gil Su At night hungry soldiers become robbers...
...The last Stalinist dinosaur state-well almost: Hola, Fidel!-has starved 2 million of its own people, holds another 150,000 in a homegrown gulag and spends its spare change building ballistic missiles, occasionally lobbing one at its neighbors...
...Gil Su "You must have been to China to act in collusion with South Korean government agencies...
...An exhibit, organized by the U.S...
...We'd better cross here and possibly be shot to death, which is better than dying of starvation...
...Capitol through May...
...Jang Gil Su and his brother Hang Il are teenage North Korean refugees...
...Hang Il charged with high-voltage electricity at an orchard...
...too much food and also because he suffered from diabetes...
...While diplomats worked to negotiate safe transit, the pair set to work on a harrowing series of drawings, depicting daily life in North Korea...
...I was forced to write a report under physical torture when I was recaptured in North Korea...
...Chinese officials routinely send back escaping North Koreans-solidarity lives...
...I was caught coming over the Tumen River by a North Korean policeman and then whipped while in handcuffs...
...Gil Su "I am not able to satisfy your little stomachs...
...Hang Il MAY/JUNE 2002 • THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 33...
...Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (wwwhrnk.org), is on display in the U.S...
...Now our enemy is notAmericans or South Koreans but our own soldiers...
...They escaped to China in 1999 and found refuge in a U.N...
...The worst robbers for us are the soldiers...
...Girls and little ones would be sleeping inside and boys would be staying toward the entrance to protect them...
...Mommy, I won't ask you for any more food...
...It's better than dying...
...A book of the brothers' pictures was a sensation in South Korea, to which they were finally allowed to depart last year...
...If we can eat a rat, it'll be a lucky day...
...I saw a couple who were ignorant of the fence die from electric shock...
...Gil Su 32 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR • MAY/JUNE 2002 "The asylum for political criminals is like a grave for the living...
...office in Beijing...
Vol. 35 • May 2002 • No. 3
