"I once buried a man and it was good. I ate fully that day."

As we gear up here in the States for Thanksgiving (random trivia to follow tomorrow on point), it behooves us to remember those who are unable to engage in the annual gorging contest coinciding with the annual Detroit Lions Home Loss.

Kim Chol-Soo, a North Korean defector who survived the Yodok Prison Camp, gave a speech the other day where he reported that prisoners in the gulag received 21 ounces of food per day. He spoke of how 34 of his fellow prisoners were people who had tried to defect and another 82 were former senior beaurocrats. We talk about providing freedom and a voice to people over the world and decry WMD. North Korea has a distinct lack of freedom for those who aren't spouting the party line - Kim reported about one man who was tortured to death for trying to contact Christian representatives in China. They continuously discuss their nuclear development program. Yet, this regime is allowed to continue.

For a more in-depth look at life in North Korea, including the prison at Yodok, I recommend reading Aquariums of Pyongyang, Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag, by Kang Chol Hwan, another defector. It's truly chilling.