Jackie: Weight Loss

I am greatly sobered this morning. I lost 9.5 pounds the first 7 days of this protest. I'm not doing any hard labor. It scares me to think how fast the people in Korean prisons would lose weight when most of them had no spare pounds to begin with. I can see how a thin person could die in as little as a month. Being in a North Korean prison is as bad as having a virulent case of cancer.

For some reason, this 9.5 number has really driven it home for me. It's terrifying.

The dr says as long as I keep my activity up, my metabolism won't shut down, so I'm doing my usual running around like a chicken with its head cut off. But let's say I weighed about 100 when I got thrown into prison, and I was facing a 10-year sentence, and then I began the hard labor (mining, fieldwork, cutting trees, etc); I would expect to lose a lot more than 9.5 lbs. a week.

That isn't a prison, it's a murder camp. Therefore, I accuse the North Korean government of mass murder with plenty of malice aforethought.