I can't speak wholly for Jackie, but I decided to embark on this food protest simply to raise awareness about conditions inside North Korean Labor Prisons, where infants are routinely murdered, prisoners are starved, and most people are in there, not because they committed a crime, but because they were under suspicion of being critical of Kim Jong Il or have the misfortune of being related, within three generations, of someone who allegedly committed some offense.
Of course, if you happen to be related to the wrong person, it doesn't matter how much you toe the party line. You get your butt arrested and thrown into a prison camp where you subsist on a handful of cornmeal and cabbage soup a day, along with any bugs and reptiles you can catch.
And, heaven forbid, you're a baby fresh from your mother's womb. You are likely to find yourself killed and tossed away into a garbage bin. Heck, that's a step above abortion, but it's ultimately cheaper than doing an abortion procedure, I suppose.
I'm doing this for one very simple reason -- if you're reading this, you're getting a bit of information that maybe you didn't have before, and maybe this information makes an impression on you. If it doesn't, well, why are you still reading?
And, as an added bonus, if it generates one more news story that mentions two American journalists are being held by North Korea as a bargaining chip, depriving a four-year old child of her mother, then hey...it's done something.
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