Blog Heap of Links for the day 8 June 2015

…[Joseph Kim's] new memoir, “Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)…

With no family and no food, he did what had previously been unthinkable: One cold winter night, he snuck across the frozen Tumen River into China…

The full story of the McKinney Texas, pool mob – inside the “Craig Ranch” subdivision

The last of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers of World War II has died. ChesterNez, died this morning [Jun 7] age of 93. RIP

Turkey went to the polls today, and the AKP — the party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — lost its absolute majority in parliament. The AKP still won, but received only 42% of the vote, and will have to head a coalition government.

In other news, up to half a million would-be migrants are said to be waiting in North Africa to attempt to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. …