I don't normally watch 60 Minutes (my opinion of this show is a matter of public record), but I decided to watch the interview with the American deserted who lived in N Korea for over 30 years. When he was reciting the North Korean texts the N Koreans made him memorise, it touched me. The way he rushed out the words like he was trying to spit it out of him as fast as he could. The pained expression on his face as he recited those words, the way his eyes took on a haunting far sighted look, where you could tell he was in another place, in another time, all those years ago. You could almost hear the echoes of a thousand beatings. You can see the emotion when he tells the reporter how he tells how his Japanese wife that had been forced to marry him chose to stay with him despite him telling her it was ok to leave him. And lastly, his emotional reunion with his mother. It really struck a chord in me last night.
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