Jan 28 - Famine-hit North Koreans turning to cannibalism

‘Cannibalism’ reports in famine-hit North Korea - International - Scotsman.com



Published on Monday 28 January 2013 11:51

TWO children were murked and eaten by their father as starving rural North Koreans have turned to cannibalism, reports from the internationally isolated state of North Korea claim.

• Famine-hit North Koreans turning to cannibalism, reports suggest

• Estimated 10,000 dead as hunger grips isolated state

The revelations from Osaka-based press agency Asia Press, which were published in yesterday’s Sunday Times, portray a country so badly struck by famine that instances of cannibalism are rising.

Another report from the same agency tells of how a man exhumed his own grandchild and boiled his corpse.

It is estimated that over 10,000 people have died as a result of a widespread famine that has struck the rural North and South Hwanghae regions particularly hard as droughts have ravaged the pariah state.

Asia Press claim they have recruited a number of citizen journalists working undercover across the provinces.

One South Hwanghae reporter claimed: “In my village in May, a man who k!lled his own two children and tried to eat them was executed by a firing squad.

“While his wife was away on business he k!lled his eldest daughter and, because his son saw what he had done, he k!lled his son as well. When the wife came home, he offered her food, saying: ‘We have meat.’”

The account also tells of how the man’s wife reported her suspicions to the police, who found parts of the childrens’ bodies on the family property.

Another citizen journalist, Gu Gwang-ho, claimed that a man had dug up the remains of his grandchild and ate him.

Jiro Ishimaru, who compiled the 12-page report at Asia Press, said: A North Korean official from the Korean Worker’s Party confirmed one incident of cannibalism, saying: Defence spending, sanctioned by leader Kim-Jong-un, is thought to have risen drastically in recent months despite widespread hunger that has devastated farming communities.

UN sanctions against North Korea have been extended as the pariah state has drawn widespread condemnation for ongoing missile testing, believed to be evidence of Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions.

A Japan and South-Korea-backed UN resolution proposed by the US was agreed on Tuesday.

Unbelievable [pic]

Probably a load of BS, we have no way of telling either way

None of this is verifiable.

"Asia Press claim to have recruited citizen journalists".................................


Nothing to see here folks.

How to you think someone prepares human?

school/college? [pic]

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RAW mother !!*r

yea, this could be fake.. as some say above. but we do know how impoverished most of NK is and its a fact that the majority of the people are dealing with serious famine.


NK doesnt have !! cuz of all the sanctions imposed upon them.

Could be bull!!, could be true.

This same !! happened in Liberia.

propaganda much?


quick they need humanitarian aid in the form of genocide

When it comes to places like North Korea it could totally be propoganda...although it's not out of the question. The starvation, not so much the cannabalism, but I could definitley see the Korean military rounding up all the food for themselves.

thank god nothing like this could ever happen here in America. [pic]

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And one guy eats his kids =/= North Korea turning to cannibalism [pic]

Meat, we gotta find something to eat Meat, we gotta find something to eat Even if we gotta go do it on the street Even if we gotta go do it on the street Even if we gotta go shootin' with the heat Even if we gotta go shootin' with the heat Even if we lie to dude we gone get the meat - lynch[pic]

Keep cutting NK slack and bashing the USA... mental midgets i swear. !!s real out here wit these crazy mofos. Yo, act as chill to them as yall want. But remember this: THEY WOULD k!ll EACH AND EVERYONE OF US GIVEN THE CHANCE... but hey, being antiUSA is cool right!

lol inappropriate

My thoughts exactly.. !! is hilarious, especially on BX.

Every news story there's always some twat preaching "propoganda much?" etc. etc.

But a news story from Iran comes out from their officials and people take it at face value, no questtions asked... the double standard is sad on these forums.