North Koreans eat their children after food is confiscated

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28 Jan 2013, 11:36 pm

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... state.html

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A starving man in North Korea has been executed after murdering his two children for food, reports from inside the secretive state claim.

A 'hidden famine' in the farming provinces of North and South Hwanghae is believed to have killed up to 10,000 people and there are fears that incidents of cannibalism have risen.

The grim story is just one to emerge as residents battle starvation after a drought hit farms and shortages were compounded by party officials confiscating food.

Undercover reporters from Asia Press told the Sunday Times that one man dug up his grandchild's corpse and ate it. Another, boiled his own child for food.

Despite reports of the widespread famine, Kim Jong Un, 30, has spent vast sums of money on two rocket launches in recent months.

There are fears he is planning a nuclear test in protest at a UN Security Council punishment for the recent rocket launches and to counter what it sees as US hostility.

One informant was quoted as saying: '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 informant said the father 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 who discovered part of the children's bodies.

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 capital Pyongyang.

A drought then left food supplies desperately short.

The Sunday Times also quoted an official of the ruling Korean Worker's party as saying: 'In a village in Chongdan county, a man who went mad with hunger boiled his own child, ate his flesh and was arrested.

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28 Jan 2013, 11:43 pm

Disgusting, but sad.

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29 Jan 2013, 1:29 am

the leaders of north korea will have a lot of 'splainin' to do when they meet their maker.

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29 Jan 2013, 2:08 am

You can tell I'm an aspie. Why? I researched for months on how to buy and create a bulletproof/bomb proof suit and then build a boat that can take me to North Korea where I can infiltrate the gulags and free the people. Yeah, it was a special interest of mine. I even wrote a song about it which ended up on my solo album. The song is called "Save The People - Song For North Korea." I went out of my way and created an 18 voice choir for the choruses. I'd say the song is okay, but in the hands of a better singer, it'd be awesome. I also read the book "Nothing To Envy" by Barbara Demick. Very depressing. There were also accounts I'dread of people who escaped from North Korea. I wonder if people know that the North Koreans sell their people into slavery in Siberia to the loggers there. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that, in Obama's next four years, somewhere along the way, he does free the people of North Korea.

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29 Jan 2013, 3:11 am

Starvation is one of the worst ways to die, so much so it drives people to eat their own children. Very sad

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29 Jan 2013, 3:29 am

should the fates allow the long-suffering north to throw off the yokes of its sociopathic ruling clique, there will be the daunting issue of how to rehabilitate multiple generations of a stunted people, and absorb them into the south. this task makes reunification of germany look like a cakewalk.

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29 Jan 2013, 2:46 pm

auntblabby wrote:

Why not just keep them seperate countries? By now their economies have nothing in common.

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29 Jan 2013, 6:42 pm

To be honest, I'd support Chinese military intervention to rescue and support the North Korean people. I know the US would blab on and on about Nuclear Weapons and War and all that, but just for simple bloody humanitarianism some force has to be applied to help those people, they're human, just like we are.

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29 Jan 2013, 7:19 pm

China probably has the greatest influence of any country, over North Korea. Hopefully, either China will absorb North Korea or Korea will become reunited under South Korea's government at some point in time.

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29 Jan 2013, 7:22 pm

Cannibalism of one's own children has happened in the Soviet Union under Stalin, and ancient Egypt, just to name a couple examples, when people have been driven to the unthinkable by starvation.

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30 Jan 2013, 4:28 am

Mike1 wrote:

Exactly. I can't see a unification likely though. It's not like Ireland, where I could see it happening.

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30 Jan 2013, 7:52 am

If this story is true, it shows the logical and most likely conclusion of a complete totalitarian state. That state sacrifices its people and then the people sacrifice their children. It is totally anti-evolutionary. The survival of the Unfit which ultimately spells the doom of All.

The only way N. Korea survives is on handouts it extorts from other nations. It is totally unable to maintain itself.

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30 Jan 2013, 7:55 am

auntblabby wrote:

In fact, they say that even those very few refugees even lucky enough to escape to the South never adjust to it, the chasm between the two countries is that enormous.

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30 Jan 2013, 7:55 am

J-Greens wrote:

It's not like Ireland, where I could see it happening.

I can't see it happening there for a very long time, if ever.

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30 Jan 2013, 9:22 am

Tequila wrote:

I can't see it happening there for a very long time, if ever.

If Scotland vote for independence, then I wouldn't be surprised if the republicans pushed through a similar proposal in N.Ireland - they've already shown they can use the political clout already. Sure, you can pretty much expect war on the streets as a result, but for once and for all, the people could get a referendum to end the troubles permanently.

I don't think it's too far-fetched to say that after 2030 we could be looking at the dissolution of the United Kingdom. The overseas territories are too small to be run by themselves and many are disputed with other countries - Gibraltar & Falklands are the obvious two, but geographically, you could argue that other developed countries could sustainably run them to the standards set already.

It's why I feel the Scottish vote that's coming up is so important. Not just for Scotland itself but the future of the UK as a whole entity.

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30 Jan 2013, 12:35 pm

J-Greens wrote:

There is a fundamental difference, though. Scotland's referendum is a simple, "in or out" question. Remain in the United Kingdom, or become an independent state.

But with Northern Ireland there are three possibilities: Remaining in the United Kingdom, union with Eire or independence. As any Australian republican can tell you, questions with three possible solutions make for problematic referenda.

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