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N.Koreans eating own kids in famine-hit
country?
Monday January 28, 2013 07:48:46 PM,
IANS
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London: A terrible
famine in North Korea has killed up to 10,000 people, and amid
increasing reports of cannibalism, a man has been executed for
allegedly murdering his two children for food, the Daily Mail
reported Monday.
According to undercover reporters from Asia Press, one man dug up
his grandchild's corpse and ate it. Another boiled his own child
for food, the report said.
People in the farming provinces of North and South Hwanghae are
battling starvation after a drought. Shortages were compounded by
party officials who reportedly confiscated food.
North Korea was hit by a famine in the 1990s -- known as the
Arduous March -- which killed between 240,000 and 3.5 million
people.
"In my village in May, a man who killed his own two children and
tried to eat them was executed by a firing squad," the daily
quoted an informant as saying.
The informant said the man killed his eldest daughter while his
wife was away on business and then killed his son because he had
witnessed the murder.
When his wife returned, the man told her they had meat. But she
became suspicious and contacted officials.
Jiro Ishimaru from Asia Press which compiled a 12-page report,
said: "Particularly shocking were the numerous testimonies that
hit us about cannibalism."
Undercover reporters said food was confiscated from the two
provinces and given to the residents of the country's capital
Pyongyang.
In a village in Chongdan county, a man "who went mad with hunger
boiled his own child, ate his flesh and was arrested", said an
official of the ruling Korean Worker's party.
UN officials visited the area during a state-sponsored trip but
local reporters said it was unlikely they were shown the
famine-hit areas.
This is not the first time that cannibalism has been reported in
the country.
In May 2012, South Korea's state-run Korean Institute for National
Unification said one man was executed after eating part of a
colleague and then trying to sell the remains as mutton.
In 2011, one man killed and ate a girl, while another man was
executed after murdering 11 people and selling the bodies as pork.
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