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North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by venorite(m): 5:38pm On Jan 28, 2013
North Korean Parents 'Eating Their Children' After Being Driven Mad By Hunger


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.
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. (Daily Mail)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269094/North-Korean-parents-eat-children-driven-mad-hunger-famine-hit-pariah-state.html
Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by eriegua83: 6:18pm On Jan 28, 2013
End time. Repent

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by hrmkz: 7:05pm On Jan 28, 2013
Population control!

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by Charlesnerd: 7:06pm On Jan 28, 2013
US and European propaganda machine at work!!

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by free13: 7:07pm On Jan 28, 2013
Charles.nerd:
US and European propaganda machine at work!!

+100

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by outrage: 7:08pm On Jan 28, 2013
US at it again! All these propaganda rubbish.

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by JimmyBoy1: 7:09pm On Jan 28, 2013
Still find this hard to believe, before it comes to eaten people, have they finished eating all the dogs, lizards, what of the all the sea food

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by gerrardomendes(m): 7:09pm On Jan 28, 2013
i blame jonathan sha undecided

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by Nobody: 7:10pm On Jan 28, 2013
NNA NA WA O! shocked shocked
Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by Legalplayerz: 7:10pm On Jan 28, 2013
Propaganda. Western world na wa o.

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by akatonero(m): 7:10pm On Jan 28, 2013
North Korea don turn Thailand? grin grin grin grin
Nothing like end time here na hunger grin grin

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by gramci: 7:11pm On Jan 28, 2013
Kim Jong Un should retrace his steps before he finds himself in pot of soup

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by SamMilla1(m): 7:13pm On Jan 28, 2013
Charles.nerd:
US and European propaganda machine at work!!

My first thought exactly.

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by NoQualms1(f): 7:13pm On Jan 28, 2013
Are you kidding me? This is serious. Are there not other options? How can a sane human being eat his own child? Can't they just migrate? This is mind boggling, dammit.
Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by Drdaps(m): 7:15pm On Jan 28, 2013
hmm what kind of hunger will drive you to eat your children
Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by kaysy(m): 7:15pm On Jan 28, 2013
This is why African remains the best continent in the world, things like this never happens here and will never happen. sometimes over development is even a problem, just imagine the problem of these ones, something that is not supposed to even happen in the first place. na wa for some people oooo

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by Nobody: 7:16pm On Jan 28, 2013
Cheap western proganda at work.


There are many poverty-ravaged countries in Africa even poorer than North Korea but we are not hearing any news of cannibalism.btw,why is this coming at a time when the North is planning to attack the south ?

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by THEPOLY11: 7:20pm On Jan 28, 2013
They said Iraq is building a weapon of mass destruction after so many years of war against Iraq there is no chemical weapon found in iraq, now this is another plot to turn everybody against North Korea, This is Media Brain Washing Instrument and the story is fake lie.

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by solomon111(m): 7:23pm On Jan 28, 2013
I am glad that people were able to recognize the western propaganda at play here.
Ride on N.KOREA;
we the true citizens of the free world are behind you.
Say NO to western imperialism and neo-colonialism.

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by devigblegble: 7:23pm On Jan 28, 2013
Mtcheeew they better find something else to say joor
Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by olayanju22(m): 7:25pm On Jan 28, 2013
Let no one be shocked all this stuff can happen in North Korea,that's a country where citizen are not allowed to travel out just becos they want to,only the govet there can give you a visa t visit the damn place,they don't recognice the UN or maybe just recently.
No international calls are allowed(punishable by death) no foreign channels, or radio stations.infact is a God forbidden country.
If I could take Christine Amampour of CNN 9 years to get the useless visa to that country.
Just imagine the rest.

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by Gluckdude(m): 7:28pm On Jan 28, 2013
gerrardomendes: i blame jonathan sha undecided
u don madt gan grin cheesy

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by Nobody: 7:29pm On Jan 28, 2013
Evil Government angry
Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by Kslib(m): 7:31pm On Jan 28, 2013
hmmmmmmnnnn!!!!
Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by Nobody: 7:32pm On Jan 28, 2013
Hmmmmmm.....America n Hegemony....God pass una sha.
Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by SisiKill1: 7:33pm On Jan 28, 2013
kaysy: This is why African remains the best continent in the world, things like this never happens here and will never happen. sometimes over development is even a problem, just imagine the problem of these ones, something that is not supposed to even happen in the first place. na wa for some people oooo

Hehehehehehehe. . . .Good one!! cheesy cheesy cheesy

I almost completed that with a straight face.

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by aglomar: 7:34pm On Jan 28, 2013
God have mercy. These ppu were created in ur image.

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by Hamintab: 7:36pm On Jan 28, 2013
olayanju22: Let no one be shocked all this stuff can happen in North Korea,that's a country where citizen are not allowed to travel out just becos they want to,only the govet there can give you a visa t visit the damn place,they don't recognice the UN or maybe just recently.
No international calls are allowed(punishable by death) no foreign channels, or radio stations.infact is a God forbidden country.
If I could take Christine Amampour of CNN 9 years to get the useless visa to that country.
Just imagine the rest.

And who is she?
Is it becos JEG wld shiver down to her hot seat anytime she beckons like a slave, u now expect others to do the same.
Not all countries would sell their pride to become slaves of the western world.

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by nuelnuel: 7:37pm On Jan 28, 2013
Propaganda for what? North Korea the poorest country in the world and some people are just saying
propaganda.If North Korea is a reasonable nation why not try to catch up with the south,they are're there testing weapons-what are they using it for while the citizens are starving.If you want to disprove a story present your facts let's see.

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by Nobody: 7:40pm On Jan 28, 2013
Many Nigerians are blind citizens who failed to face reality. Keep taking it for Western propaganda until it hits you guys in the eyes. Cannibalism is rampant in that country! The news said they have been sentenced yet people still failed to accept it as fact.

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Re: North Korean Parents 'Eat Their Children' In Famine-hit State by warrior101: 7:42pm On Jan 28, 2013
I find this hard to believe sha. But who actually knows? undecided

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