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I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for

I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was . I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the food, only to find that I couldn't do it justice, because my stomach had shrunk. And as a foreign tourist in North Korea, under the care of vigilant minders who wanted me to see only the best, I had enjoyed the finest fare available.

Christopher Hitchens

Food Music Books Literature Hunger Cults Kim Il Sung North Korea Kim Jong Il Newspapers Hero Worship Airports Cinema Manchuria

Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordi

Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung.

Christopher Hitchens

Dictatorship Psychology Cults Kim Il Sung North Korea Subordination