Current Affairs North Korea Cannibalism Horror

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Reports from inside the secretive famine-hit pariah state, North Korea, claim a man has been executed after murdering his two children for food.

Shocking reports claim North Koreans are turning to cannibalism with reports including details of one man who dug up his grandchild's corpse to eat and another who boiled his child and ate the flesh.

Details of the incidents were reported by the Asia Press, and published in the Sunday Times.

They claim a 'hidden famine' in the farming provinces of North and South Hwanghae has killed 10,000 people, and there are fears that cannibalism is spreading throughout the country.

The reports come as sanctions against the country are tightened against the backdrop of angry rhetoric over missile testing.

The litany of horrors were documented by Asia Press,a specialist news agency based in Osaka, Japan, which claims to have recruited a network of "citizen journalists" inside North Korea.

The reports are considered credible.

Interviews have led Asia Press to conclude that probably more than 10,000 people have died in North and South Hwanghae provinces, south of Pyongyang, the capital.

North Korea has not confirmed or denied any reports of the deaths.

One informant, based in South Hwanghae, said: "In my village in May, a man who killed his own two children and tried to eat them was executed by a firing squad.

"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. When the wife came home, he offered her food, saying: 'We have meat.'

"But his wife, suspicious, notified the Ministry of Public Security, which led to the discovery of part of their children's bodies under the eaves."

Jiro Ishimaru, from Asia Press said: 'Particularly shocking were the numerous testimonies that hit us about cannibalism.'

Another of the citizen journalists, Gu Gwang-ho, said: "There was an incident when a man was arrested for digging up the grave of his grandchild and eating the remains."

A middle ranking official of the ruling Korean Workers Party said: "In a village in Chongdan county, a man who went mad with hunger boiled his own child, ate his flesh and was arrested"

A new UN agreement, passed on Tuesday, extended sanctions already imposed on North Korea after it held nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.

The current rise in tensions and extension of sanctions follows Pyonyang's defiant decision to push ahead with a long-range rocket launch on December 12 - insisting it was a peaceful mission to place a satellite in orbit.

Despite the insistence of the regime that the test was peaceful the rest of the world saw it as a banned ballistic missile test.

The United States, supported by Japan and South Korea, spearheaded the new UN resolution.

This week North Korea once again raised the level of rhetoric over sanctions, threatening war with its neighbours in the south saying: "If the South Korean puppet regime of traitors directly participates in the so-called UN 'sanctions', strong physical countermeasures would be taken," the North's Committee for Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said.

Edited January 29, 2013 by bickster

[maqroll]

This is what really bothers me about sanctions- they hit the weakest the hardest, and the tyrants that rule never feel the pain. We punish the people, and then their government uses it as an example of our cruelty. And in a way, they are correct. 

[Eames]

Paging the VT North Korea correspondant.........

"If the South Korean puppet regime of traitors directly participates in the so-called UN 'sanctions', strong physical countermeasures would be taken," the North's Committee for Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said.

**** me, if thats the "Peaceful Reunification" lot said, I wonder what "Take 'em by force and **** the consequences" Commitee think about all this...?

Edited January 28, 2013 by Eames

[BOF]

You know what they say. When in Pyongyang, do what the Pyongyangians do.

[AVFCforever1991]

Spend the money they use for Military and feed the people.

[Danwichmann]

This is what really bothers me about sanctions- they hit the weakest the hardest, and the tyrants that rule never feel the pain. We punish the people, and then their government uses it as an example of our cruelty. And in a way, they are correct. 

 

But aren't they also offered (at least up until quite recently) aid that should benefit the poorest? Clearly, no one wants sanctions that leave the poor hungry, but on the other hand I wouldn't want to validate such a regime by trading with them normally.  

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[tonyh29]

Got to say I take the majority of stories  reported in the west about NK with a pinch of salt 

 

however

 

 

From my visit , clearly there were and are people starving , the land is petty much non-arable  so they can't grow any crops , and tractors are pretty much non existent , I saw people ploughing fields using their bare hands and washing in the rivers

 

and yet in Pyongyang people have mobile phones , eat ice cream and are generally well off , even saw one or two locals with Micky mouse t-shirts .. ( couldn't quite get that perfect shot of a kid in a mickey mouse T-shirt standing in front of the huge poster with " Death to the Imperialists" written on it 

 

The Chinese are supplying the majority of goods otherwise it would be far worse

[CarewsEyebrowDesigner]

How long before they hand out Soylent Green to the poor?

Edited January 28, 2013 by CarewsEyebrowDesigner

[mjmooney]

Have they run out of poodles or summat?

[tonyh29]

I had dog when I was out there ... it's like a working farm dog rather than some little girls pet

[KevMur]

He's a jong 'un.

[blandy]

I had one of those North Korean Ready meals - but a Vegetarian version as i didn't fancy eating Dog. It was called "Not Poodle"

[BOF]

I had one of those North Korean Ready meals - but a Vegetarian version as i didn't fancy eating Dog. It was called "Not Poodle"

Bravo

[mjmooney]

Jeez, I was doing the "Not Poodle" joke 20 years ago!

[BOF]

Jeez, I was doing the "Not Poodle" joke 20 years ago!

That would've been pruned by now.

[mjmooney]

(...desperately tries to think of 'prune' joke)

[tonyh29]

I had one of those North Korean Ready meals - but a Vegetarian version as i didn't fancy eating Dog. It was called "Not Poodle"

 

 

he he

[andyh]

After they executed that bloke, did they fire up the barbie ?

[AVFCforever1991]

Apparently animals make different sounds according to different languages.

 

For example, in North Korea a dog makes a sizzling noise.