This is what Kang Chol Hwan remembers from when he was 10 years old: "The key was to take advantage of the fall, when fruits and vegetables could still be found, to consume like bears in hibernation enough to get through the winter. That's the most important thing I learned ... There was no other way to survive." At 10, Kang and his family had already spent a year in Yodok, a North Korean labor camp, sent there because his grandfather, a manager at a state-owned agency, had been accused of disloyalty to the regime of the late dictator...
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