Well, tomorrow marks the 1 week anniversary of our food strike (today is technically Day 7, as we started Friday). I picked an ear of corn from my garden, but it wasn't quite ripe, which didn't much matter. I ate it, anyway.
I'm been drinking water and dilute, noncaloric iced tea like crazy. I did have a few bursts of energy today, and my headache has subsided for now.
I hope (and suspect) that Euna Lee and Laura Ling are actually eating better than we are right now, considering it wouldn't be good to have North Korea's bargaining chips take seriously ill. Nevertheless, there are thousands if not millions of people whose names and face remain a mystery who aren't so lucky.
Just to give an idea of what it's like in such a labor prison, I leave you with Lee Soon Ok's witness account. She was a former North Korean party official who became a victim of North Korea's criminal system. She endured extensive torture that resulted in, among other permanent injuries, the loss of eight teeth and permanent facial paralysis.
"I testify that most of the 6,000 prisoners who were there when I arrived in 1987 had quietly perished under the harsh prison conditions by the time I was released in 1992." Lee Soon Ok recounted numerous incidents of torture and deaths of individuals in her camp, including the murder of infants and abortions of fetuses of women in the camp upon their arrival.
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