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North Korean parents ‘eating their own children’ after being driven mad by hunger in famine-hit pariah state

Posted By admin On January 28, 2013 @ 6:42 am In World News | Comments Disabled

BECKY EVANS
UK Daily Mail ^[1]
Jan 28, 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.

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.

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