Continuing on with my current interest in North Korea I have found an article written by a Chinese women who was in North Korea on potential business that depicts how bleak the city the country feels. One particular moment that she details which I found disconcerting was about fruit. The writer at one point drew a picture of a banana which a waitress could not recognize; although the waitress did know of apples but had never eaten one. This is just so shocking that in a developing nation with the capacity to create nuclear devices that a waitress couldn’t recognize a banana or never even had the opportunity to taste an apple. Click the link to read the original article.

Four Days in North Korea by Sarah Wang