CHAPTER THIRTEEN
8:35 a.m. (7:35 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time)
Taebaek Mountains – Gangwon Province, South Korea
The man was nearly dead.
His name was Kim Ki-nam. He was thirty-four years old, and a captain in the North Korean Army. He had been walking for days—he was no longer certain how many. At some point, he had become confused and lost track of time.
He could remember how very hungry he had been for the first day or two. The rations at the base had been poor recently, dwindling to almost nothing. When he left, his stomach was already almost empty. The country was gripped by famine again, the result of crop sabotage by spies from the United States.
At this point, he had barely eaten anything in days. Even so, he no longer felt hungry, just tired. More tired than he had ever been.
