I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very hungry human was capable of stealing food from its little ones while an animal, perhaps, was not.
Kang Chol-Hwan, The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
animals, famine, humanity, hunger, nature, north-korea, people