More senior citizens in North Korea are being pressured to kill themselves because of intergenerational conflicts and
the skyrocketing cost of medicine.
Elderly North Koreans who can no longer depend on
the country’s welfare system must also cope with
their children who are sometimes apathetic to their needs, Radio Free Asia reported Thursday.
A source in North Hamgyong Province told RFA on Tuesday it is a common sight at parks or train stations to see senior citizens gathered together, even as temperatures
continue to drop in some of the coldest parts of the
country.
“[Korean War] veterans are among their numbers; it
is heartbreaking to see them there,” the source
said.
The elderly, who are no longer employable, leave
their homes during the day to avoid friction with
their children.
They shiver in the cold outdoors until the sun sets,
the source said.
The financial burden they impose on their adult
children who also struggle to make ends meet has
led to family crises, where it is the children who are asking their aging parents to commit suicide, said another source in North Hamgyong Province.
The notion of killing themselves is not unfamiliar to
elderly North Koreans, particularly war veterans
who once devoted their lives to the Workers’ Party
and sacrificing for North Korea founder Kim Il Sung.
Their devotion has not paid off, as neither the state
nor their children are tending to their needs,
according to the report.
Adult children complain chiefly about the cost of
medicine and their parents’ inability to participate in
a market economy.
Out of frustration, they hang a scroll in their
parents’ bedrooms that reads, “Spirit of Self-
Destruction” or suicide.
Young people placing pressure on the elderly to kill
themselves is becoming a trend, the source said.

Source: www.versatilereporters.com/2016/11/elderly-people-in-north-korea-pushed.html?m=1

South Korea 's president is about to be impeached following a corruption scandal.
Not only that there there are too many homeless people in South Korea. At the same time, the North has one of the best housing project in world, you can't even find in any western country.
These are the things the propaganda machine does NOT want you to see.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA7qPidxiQs