North Korea

Image via WikipediaNorth Korea is one messed up place.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/10/AR2008121003855.html

"In the book, Shin describes the "common and almost routine" savagery of the camp: the rape of his cousin by prison guards and the beating to death of a young girl found with five grains of unauthorized wheat in her pocket. He once found three kernels of corn in a pile of cow dung, he writes. He picked them out, cleaned them off on his sleeve and ate them. "As miserable as it may seem, that was my lucky day," he writes."