North of the Border

One has to respect a man that puts one of his kidneys up as collateral in order to finance the production of a play.  According to the Reuters report, North Korean refugee Jung Sung-san did this in order to continue creating a play depicting real life in North Korean prisons.  He had been an inmate at one of the “notorious political prisons of the North,” but was lucky to escape after serving only 3 months there.  He was sent to prison after listening to a South Korean radio broadcast.

Anyone in Seoul or going to Seoul within the next 20 days should go check this play out.  If I had the necessary funds and time, I might just head over there myself.