World War Z

Max Brooks
Literary Fiction
Pages 204-238

The nation that was most protected from the Zombie outbreak was North Korea. North Korea was completely unharmed by World War Z. They stopped transportation and communications with other countries one year prior to the public announcement of the Zombie infection. After the Korean war all of the nation's resources were put into national security, strengthening their borders and making every civilian undergo military training. U.S. Satellites revealed that there was no activity at all in North Korea, it was like everyone vanished. The North Koreans did in fact vanish, they went underground in bunkers were they lived until the end of World War Z. The nation that was the most devastated by World War Z was Japan. Most off Japan's cities went up in flames and the entire nation was forced to evacuated to the mainland of China. Kondo Tatsumi was a survive that was able to flee out of Japan. He said that once the outbreak started that there was no chance of following a evacuation plan, all chaos broke lose. Zombies spilled out of hospitals within the cities creating a panic. Kondo is an otaku he stayed inside his house all day gathering information from the computer. He locked his door and even as his city was being destroyed by the infection he continued to stay at his computer and learn about the zombies from the survivors around the world. He says that because he learned so much about the zombies that he was able to survive in the infested territory and make it through World War Z.

I believe that North Korea was the bet place to hold out during World War Z because their form of government kept the people obedient and fearless. They remained calm because they would rather die then disobey their dictator. Also, the entire population of North Korea has military training of some sort because of the Korean War. This made them properly equipped to handle the Zombie situation. they could have easily survived for decades in a world filled with Zombies.