Reading about North Korea

By Amie H

I’m trying to catch up on my reading of N.K.

I’m surprised at how many authors skip right over the brutality of the government towards its people.  It almost seems like the mindset is accepted:  If we don’t talk about it then we don’t feel obligated to do something about it.

That makes me sad.  I will start reading a book or watch a documentary and it seems so well put together; so wonderfully researched. Researched to the point that I can’t wait to read or hear about what they uncovered regarding concentration camps and the treatment of individuals.  I want to hear what that author’s take on it will be.

Then… nothing.  It is truly such a let down.  For a small moment, I question the situations that I am well aware of in N.K.  For that moment, I don’t realize the starving or the tortured. I am blinded by ignorance.  I open my “eyes” and remember.  Why isn’t it a big deal?  How can these authors who are well educated and obvious to the situation so easily overlook so grave a detail?  It is unbelievable.

~ by alpharelief on June 20, 2008.