From border camps and bases in West Timor, they harbor thoughts of revenge and allegedly plan to renew the violence. Although the militias had promised to disarm, a spokesman for U.N. operation there said he had seen no sign of them honoring that pledge. Then there are the corpses. Mass graves are found throughout East Timor with alarming regularity, as if the victims themselves will not allow the bloodshed to be forgotten. Food aid flows through East Timor, and the situation is far better than it was in September, when tens of thousands of refugees faced starvation in the mountains and death by armed gangs in the streets.
Some places just give people a bad feeling.
North Korea, according to some of the few foreigners who have been there, is one of them. You feel it. You sense it. It's on the faces of the people. That strain may come from poverty and starvation.