[imText1]After the burial mounds have risen and the gravestones set, the lack of grass prevents even rich and high ranking authorities from covering their parents’ and relatives’ graves.
A small town close to the border in Sakju, North Pyongan. Here, another grave has no grass but at least has a gravestone.
In the mid-1990s when the famine was at its height, the authorities put dead bodies on the streets for trucks to collect for mass burial.
They called it as “sowing” at the time, because burying many bodies in the same place was like sowing seeds. That’s why the owner of this grave may be fortunate compared to those who died during the great famine.
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