Chongjin was made famous last year as a result of Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy, a book that focuses on the lives of several individuals who lived in the city during the great famine of the early 1990s.  In Nothing to Envy, Demick paints the picture of a city suffering chronic decay, in which dead bodies filled the streets, children had to fend for themselves, and looters ransacked factories for spare parts.  Quite how bad it was, one will never know for sure – but it is clear from pictures recently acquired by NK News,that conditions in Chongjin