[Obadiah]

The North Koreans have been forced to eat grass and tree bark, with reports of some even eating their babies in order to avoid starvation. In the mid to late nineties hundreds of thousands of North Koreans died from starvation (see the book, "Nothing to Envy"). How is it that Kim Jong-un grew up as a fat, pasty kid in a nation of mass starvation? Quite an overt contrast that displays the problem, eh?

[GeronL]

In the mid-90’s some 3 million died of starvation. They also stopped distributing the food rations to the masses.

Since then the average NorK citizen knows not to trust the government too much, those who do are more likely to die of starvation. The black market is now a necessity of life.

[LouD]

Kim Jong-un grew up attending boarding school in Switzerland.

[boxlunch]

I hope American teens reading “The Hunger Games” see the parallel between the world of the Hunger Games and any totalitarian communist country in the world today. The Capitol: the city where the “elite” rulers and a fawning populace live: well fed, decadent, silly people who live for entertainment and support the “President”,and the harshly evil oppressor President and his “Peacekeepers”, and in contrast the Districts: oppressed/enslaved areas of the country that earlier rebelled and now must work as impoverished half starved slave labor in mines, farms, etc to supply the Capitol.

I have no idea if the majority of teens do get it, or if it’s just the latest fad to them with romance and an exciting story. I hope some see that it may be our future here if we don’t turn this country around.