World War Z - Around the World, and Above

Section: South Korea, pages 199-203

I chose this section because of how mysterious it is. At the beginning of each section the author usually states what that specific country did to save its people and if it was successful or not, but this section simply stated that it had no idea what happened in North Korea. Unlike the North Koreans, who are trained with military tactics, who had a large army and a safe place to go during another war, the South Koreans had nothing. The North Koreans closed off the railroad connecting the two, surprisingly brushed off by the South Koreans as another security check. The North Koreans simply disappeared,  the farmers, "...every man, woman, and child in North Korea, had simply vanished."

This section is important to the context of the larger story because it sheds light to another way a country dealt with this crisis, and it makes us wonder what ever happened to the North Koreans in the underground tunnels? "Maybe those caverns are teeming with twenty-three million zombies, emaciated automaton howling in the darkness and just waiting to be unleashed." This ending sentence could act as foreshadowing, leading our minds to think that maybe those twenty three million will someday be unleashed.

I liked the section because it left us wondering, it wasn't as straight forward as the others by telling us from the start how they tried to survive the apocalypse. I like the way that the author wrote it, saying that the South Koreans saw it slowly happening, everyone up North disappearing, but they shrugged it off. I didn't like how shallow it was, there didn't seem to be any deep connection like the other sections or countries. This part was shallow and short and I wished there had been a little bit more to take away from this section other than the fact that the North Koreans disappeared.