
Jang Young Suk, 38, stood in her kitchen surrounded by a small crowd of strangers: me and the other Tzu Chi volunteers, along with a translator and North Korean government officials. She was waiting for me to photograph her, holding in her hands a bowl of corn and vegetable porridge that she had prepared as a lunch for her husband, a laborer. As she faced us, we asked through the translator if she had had her lunch. She looked uncomfortable as she brushed the question away with a vague response.
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