Thread: 'Starving' North Korean parents 'eating their children' in famine-hit state

'Starving' North Korean parents 'eating their children' in famine-hit state
Mon Jan 28 2013




A starving father in North Korea has been executed for murdering his two children for food, reports from the secretive state have claimed.

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 in the country.

The grim story is just one that has come to light, as residents are battling against starvation after a drought hit farms and shortages were compounded by party officials who were confiscating food.

According to the Daily Mail, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has spent huge amount on two rocket launches, despite reports of food shortages in the country and concerns that 10,000 people have died in a famine.

Undercover reporters from Asia Press told the Sunday Times that one man dug up his grandchild's corpse and ate it, and another man boiled his own child for food.

An informant said a father killed his eldest daughter while his wife was away on business and then killed his son because he was the witness to 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.

Undercover reporters said food was confiscated from the two provinces and given to the residents in Pyongyang.

The Sunday Times also quoted an official of the ruling Korean Worker''s party as saying that '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 is not the first time that reports of cannibalism have come to light in 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, the report added.

indianexpress.com

China really needs to pull these twats into line.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

China really needs to pull these twats into line.

During China's "Great Leap Forward", in which Mao Tse Tung pretended they had huge grain surpluses, there were areas where starvation was so bad that some parents exchanged children, to be killed and eaten. They could not bear to do it to their children.
Other people ate grass and bark.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

China really needs to pull these twats into line.

Cheers to that !

That's unbelievable. Nuke the elite now.

Originally Posted by noelbino

That's unbelievable.

Probably one instance in an extreme situation.
Naturally, blown out of proportion to include the masses.

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Originally Posted by noelbino

That's unbelievable.

Probably one instance in an extreme situation.
Naturally, blown out of proportion to include the masses.

Fucking idiot lowlife apologist.

If red Korea is so great then go live there

Ah, some good ol' propaganda.

Originally Posted by noelbino

That's unbelievable. Nuke the elite now.

Just the sort of chanting the creators of such stories are looking for.

Nuke them! Nuke them NOW!

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

Ah, some good ol' propaganda.

Originally Posted by noelbino

That's unbelievable. Nuke the elite now.

Just the sort of chanting the creators of such stories are looking for.

Nuke them! Nuke them NOW!

they'd only nuke the American soldiers in reply based a few miles away, and then China would get involved.... what's the song "its the end of the world as we know it..."

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

Ah, some good ol' propaganda.

Originally Posted by noelbino

That's unbelievable. Nuke the elite now.

Just the sort of chanting the creators of such stories are looking for.

Nuke them! Nuke them NOW!

Yep. that'll teach 'em.
Uncivilised Oriental brutes.
Yellow heathens.

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

Ah, some good ol' propaganda.

Originally Posted by noelbino

That's unbelievable. Nuke the elite now.

Just the sort of chanting the creators of such stories are looking for.

Nuke them! Nuke them NOW!

Yeah. Nuke them now. Why not ? Look at how well a capitalist S Korea is doing so why not nuke the North so it can make progress ?


Peace mongering propaganda is all I am seeing here

Cannibal horror as 10,000 North Koreans starve
Michael Sheridan
Additional reporting: Shota Ushio, Tokyo
January 28, 2013

A FATHER in North Korea is reported to have been executed by firing squad after murdering his two children to eat them during a "hidden famine" that may have killed more than 10,000 people last year.

In a litany of horrors documented by undercover reporters, another man dug up his grandchild's corpse for food and a third, driven mad by hunger, boiled his own child and ate the flesh.

The stories were collected by Asia Press, a specialist news agency based in Osaka, Japan, which has a network of "citizen journalists" inside North Korea and is regarded as credible.

Dozens of interviews and clandestine reports have led it to conclude that "considerable numbers of people" - probably more than 10,000 - have died in North and South Hwanghae provinces, south of Pyongyang, the capital.

North Korea has not officially confirmed any deaths. A government-supervised mission by the UN last September reported a food surplus in both provinces, yet the clandestine reporting depicts a pattern of misery and death while Kim Jong-un, the country's leader, spent lavishly on banquets and missile tests. One informant, an official 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."

In its detailed 12-page report, Asia Press identifies reporters and sources by pseudonyms. "Particularly shocking were the numerous testimonies that hit us about cannibalism," said the agency's Jiro Ishimaru.

Gu Gwang-ho, one of the reporters in North Korea, wrote: "There was an incident when a man was arrested for digging up the grave of his grandchild and eating the remains."

In May in Haeju, South Hwanghae's main city, a man who had killed 11 people and sold the meat as pork was executed by firing squad.

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

These incidents reportedly took place as Mr Kim, 30, marked his ascent to power with a new image, a glamorous wife and two costly rocket launches.

Last week, he followed these with a defiant pledge to retaliate against the latest UN sanctions by staging a third nuclear weapons test "aimed at the United States".

Early last year, officials confiscated food from farm collectives in North and South Hwanghae to supply the army and reward the privileged residents of Pyongyang for their loyalty to the Kim dynasty, the undercover reporters say.

But then a drought struck and, from April to June, farmers and their families in these "breadbasket" provinces began to die.

"One family was completely wiped out, everyone died of starvation, while another family gave up hope of living and killed themselves," said Gu.

A hospital administrator said there was no wood for coffins or cremations, so the dead had been wrapped in straw mats and tipped into an unmarked common grave.

"The farming villages I visited from May to June were in such a tragic state that I had to cover my eyes," the party official added. "There was no food at all. Casting out elderly parents or abandoning children was nothing rare."

"Political waste" on celebrations and extra rations for Pyongyang were key factors, according to the reporters.

Mr Kim, a plump, beaming figure, ordered new apartment blocks, imported equipment for a fairground and a dolphinarium, staged lavish festivities and appeared at a pop concert with his pregnant wife.

"The smooth transfer of power . . . was the top priority," according to the reporters. The famine in the Hwanghae provinces has passed its peak, the reports say. It is probable that when the UN team visited the area in the autumn, it was shown no evidence of it.

Japanese government sources say North Korea has developed a compact nuclear weapon that can fit on to a missile capable of reaching the US's west coast. The device may be equal in force to the atomic bomb that destroyed the city of Nagasaki in 1945, the sources told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.

As Mr Kim celebrates his first year in power, it is clear thousands have paid for his adventures.

theaustralian.com.au

of course, the story was independently verified

and they wonder how the west is so gullible,

North Korean parents eat their children as famine worsens
JohnThomas
Jan 28, 2013

Pyongyang - Reports say a North Korean man has been executed after he killed his two children for food.

He was reportedly put to death by firing squad after officials discovered he ate his children in the 2012 famine in which thousands of North Koreans died.

According to The Independent, a report compiled by Asia Press titled "Rimjin-gang: Reports and Surveys from North Korea," says starving citizens of the DPRK are eating "children and corpses" as UN tightens sanctions spearheaded by the United States.

Asia Press reportedly recruited a network of "citizen journalists" in North Korea.

According to the Daily Mail, the Asia Press report says the father killed his eldest daughter while his wife was on a business trip. He also killed his son who witnessed the murder.

The South China Morning Post reports that an informant told Asia Press:

"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."

Reports by citizen journalists employed by Asia Press indicate a "hidden famine" in the rural provinces of North and South Hwanghae, south of Pyongyang, in which 10,000 people are believed to have died.

According to Jiro Ishimaru of Asia Press, in a 12-page report, "Particularly shocking were the numerous testimonies that hit us about cannibalism."

Another Asia Press citizen journalist, 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."

The Daily Mail reports undercover reporters from Asia Press said a man exhumed his grandchild's corpse for food while another boiled his own child for dinner.

A man 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 firing squad."

Cannibalism is also reported in the sprawling network of North Korean prison camps such as Camp 22, with an estimated 50,000 inmates.

The Daily Mail reports The Sunday Times 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."

Another official was quoted as saying that the fields were in such bad state as a result of drought that he was forced to avert his eyes.

The disturbing stories of starvation due to food shortages are being reportedly compounded by party officials who confiscate food.

Undercover reporters from Asia Press said food was confiscated from two provinces and given to the residents of the capital Pyongyang.

While citizens die of starvation, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is expending huge resources on rocket launches.

There are concerns that the North Korean leader is planning a nuclear test in protest at UN Security Council sanctions after recent rocket launches.

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

The South China Morning Post reports that the Yonhap News Agency said in 2012 that North Korea executed three citizens for cannibalism.

Also in May last year, the South Korean Institute for National Unification said one man was executed after he ate body parts of a colleague and tried to sell the rest as mutton. There are also similar reports from 2011.

There was a severe famine in North Korea in the 1990s called "the Arduous March," during which between 240,000 and 3.5 million people reportedly died.

The South China Morning Post reports North Korean defectors say during the famine, North Koreans traded in human flesh, presumably from corpses of famine victims.

According to The Independent, while millions die of starvation, the UN has extended sanctions already imposed on the country after nuclear tests it held in 2006 and 2009.

The sanctions are spearheaded by the United States, backed by Japan and South Korea.

The new sanctions are in response to Pyonyang's decision to continue with plans for long-range rocket launch.

The North Korean regime insists its tests are part of a peaceful program to place a satellite in orbit.

North Korea has reacted to threats of sanctions with threats of its own.

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

digitaljournal.com

Originally Posted by Mid

According to the Daily Mail

Although there are some more credible sources there, I lost faith as soon as the Daily Mail was mentioned

Originally Posted by Chico the Fox

Originally Posted by Mid

According to the Daily Mail

Although there are some more credible sources there, I lost faith as soon as the Daily Mail was mentioned

Of course if you care to Google up "cannibalism in North Korea " there are about 12 reports on the subject from different news media's including the BBC ,this is just one of themNorth Korean cannibalism fears amid claims starving people forced to desperate measures - Asia - World - The Independent and if you think that just cos the "Daily Mail" covered the story then that automatically makes it all a complete load of bollocks, by all means say so, cos I stand to be corrected but IMHO that is just what you was inferring

^^ off you pop and join Handsuman. He's getting lonely I guess lol

can you believe the shit that the CIA can put online to lure the gullible fuckers ?

they even tried to convince the world that Saddam was eating his own people and had WMD,

the poor American fuckers believed every words of it

Originally Posted by Butterfly

can you believe the shit that the CIA can put online to lure the gullible fuckers ?

they even tried to convince the world that Saddam was eating his own people and had WMD,

the poor American fuckers believed every words of it

There could be thousands of people starving to death , you have no thought or compassion for them , you just dismiss the story as being lies and anyone who may believe the story is a "gullible fucker"
Ignore the story, bury your head in the sand and then use the story to attack the USA .
North Korea could easily prove the story to be false by letting journalists into the country , but thats something that they wont do

Originally Posted by Fluke

Originally Posted by Butterfly

can you believe the shit that the CIA can put online to lure the gullible fuckers ?

they even tried to convince the world that Saddam was eating his own people and had WMD,

the poor American fuckers believed every words of it

There could be thousands of people starving to death , you have no thought or compassion for them , you just dismiss the story as being lies and anyone who may believe the story is a "gullible fucker"
Ignore the story, bury your head in the sand and then use the story to attack the USA .
North Korea could easily prove the story to be false by letting journalists into the country , but thats something that they wont do

Of course Butterfly has loads of independent evidence to prove its all propaganda saying that North Korea is starving , no doubt he will produce it in answer to my post #42 and the article enclosed ,some how I feel all I will get back is his usual empty rhetoric

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

No kidding. Indeed "citizen journalism" has tallied 60,000 Syrians dead - killed by that evil Assad - and no one seems to even bother saying "these can't be verified" (except BBC). Even the UN is using that figure now.

it's not the actual truth or facts that matters, it's how they are reported

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

No kidding. Indeed "citizen journalism" has tallied 60,000 Syrians dead - killed by that evil Assad - and no one seems to even bother saying "these can't be verified" (except BBC). Even the UN is using that figure now.

it's not the actual truth or facts that matters, it's how they are reported

How do you feel that this story should have been reported?

*The exotic cuisine of North Korean*

*Colonel Saunders revealed his recipe for KFC and now Kim jong ill has revealed his secret recipe for KFB*

*Want to lose weight after Christmas, have a holiday in North Korea*


Yes, I suppose that this story could have been reported differently......

Originally Posted by Mid

North Korean parents eat their children as famine worsens

what a ridiculous story, it stings of manipulation, doesn't it ? gotta love their timing too,

if the US could focus on finding solutions to help the poor people there instead of playing a war of propaganda and information, they would be more useful than ridiculous stories plants

shame on Mid for being so gullible, as usual