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North Korean parents, 'eat their children,' after being driven mad by hunger in famine-hit pariah state

Undercover reporters found a 'shocking' number of cannibalism incidents

Up to 10,000 people feared dead after 'hidden famine' in farming provinces

Drought and confiscated food contribute to desperate shortage, reports say

Reports of men digging up corpses for food and murdering children

By Becky Evans

11:11 EST, 27 January 2013

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.

North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, has spent vast sums of money on two rocket launches despite reports of desperate food shortages in the country and concerns that 10,000 people have died in a famine, picture below.

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.'

Farming communities, such as these pictured outside the capital Pyongyang last year, have been desperately hit by drought which has led to reports of people turning to cannibalism in a bid to ward off starvation, picture below.

One official said the fields are in such a bad state from drought that he had to avert his eyes.

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.

Cannibalism has also been reported in the vast network of prison camps inside North Korea, such as Camp 22, pictured, where 50,000 are believed to be imprisoned, picture below.

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.'

United Nations officials visited the area during a state-sponsored trip but local reporters said it is unlikely they were shown the famine-hit areas.

It has not the first time that reports of cannibalism have come out of the country.

In May last year, the South Korean state-run Korean Institute for National Unification said that one man was executed after eating part of a colleague and then trying to sell the remains as mutton.

One man killed and ate a girl and a third report of cannibalism was recorded from 2011.

Another man was executed in May after murdering 11 people and selling the bodies as pork.

There were also reports of cannibalism in the country's network of prison camps.

North Korea was hit by a terrible famine in the 1990s - known as the Arduous March - which killed between 240,000 and 3.5million people.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2JERPmxNM

*Another Article*

North Koreans Eating Their Own Kids: Reports
Cannibalism on the rise amid food shortage, informants say By

Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 28, 2013 5:05 PM CST

(Newser) – Rumors of cannibalism are emerging from North Korea during a food shortage that may have killed 10,000 people last year, Global Post reports. In one gruesome tale, authorities allegedly executed a father for killing and eating two of his kids, "While his wife was away on business he killed his eldest daughter and because his son saw what he had done, he killed his son as well," said an informant. "When the wife came home he offered her food, saying 'We have meat.'"

But she grew suspicious and alerted authorities, who discovered parts of the children's remains "under the eaves." Informants also tell of a man arrested for digging up and eating his dead grandchild, and, "a man who went mad with hunger," and boiled his child for dinner, the Independent reports. Meanwhile Pyongyang is waving its sword around, threatening to fire a nuclear missile at the US and take, "strong physical countermeasures," if South Korea, "participates in the so-called UN 'sanctions.'"

*The last two photos are from the second story. The middle photo from a protest yesterday. The last, a woman working in a field from late 2011.*

[Bouncer]

Pile of shit, I don't see the point in this thread

[Pyramid_Head]

That is fucked up shit right there.

[bloodgasm]

Originally Posted by Bouncer ↗

Pile of shit, I don't see the point in this thread

hey hey now

[Bouncer]

Originally Posted by bloodgasm ↗

hey hey now

I'm not going to lie the op made me do it.

[Gh007]

this may be real or it may be propoganda...
they key is, information doesnt go into or come out of north Korea...
So Im stickin with that this could just be bleeding heart propoganda. Pics or it didnt happen

[MCBR]

So, tree bark just got too mainstream.

LET'S THREATEN US WITH BOMBS SO THEY GIVE US MONEY & FOOD.

[ices]

Originally Posted by Gh007 ↗

this may be real or it may be propoganda...
they key is, information doesnt go into or come out of north Korea...
So Im stickin with that this could just be bleeding heart propoganda. Pics or it didnt happen

You dont need propaganda to know this is going on.

Those people are not "poor" in the sense of western poor, they have no food.

That means no handouts, no benefits, no McDonalds, nobody buying them food.

P O O R

That is the definition of famine, cannibalism is well known to take place in such conditions, just because we in the west have to be guilt-tripped in order to give money doesn't mean this shit doesn't happen.

[Sharon]

If this is a genuine situation then it's one of the most AWFUL and TRAGIC things I've ever heard

[AmericanIllusions]

You guys failed to mention US sanctions against North Korea. Why?