Nick Wallace’s Reviews > North Korea: A Country Study > Status Update

North Korean humor! When referring to the middle to bottom 85% of the population, defectors have referred to the many gradations in terms of "tomatoes", "apples", and "grapes": "tomatoes, which are red to the core, are worthy communists; apples, which are red only on the surface, need ideological improvement, and grapes are hopeless." It's a lot like the old Soviet-era jokes.