Satellite photos of slave labor camps in North Korea:
eskimo.mit.edu
>>Hunger and malnutrition stalk North Korea (photo of North Korean child who looks remarkably like a holocaust victim)
cnn.com
Another photo of emaciated North Korean children:
cbsnews.com
Well, what the hell do you expect? Millions of North Koreans have died of starvation, they're going to look remarkably like Holocaust victims towards the end, because that's how they looked when the concentration camps were liberated - emaciated, disease ridden.
Human Rights Watch reports on the condition of North Korean refugees repatriated to North Korea (living conditions include eating rats because there's nothing else to eat, women being raped publicly):
hrw.org
hrw.org
Medicines Sans Frontiers reports that food aid to North Korea is denied those whose loyalties are suspect:
msf.org
"Even population groups such as children, pregnant women and the elderly, who are specifically targeted by the WFP for assistance, are being denied food distribution . . . . In North Korean society, the three class labels - "core," "wavering," and "hostile" - continue to be used to prioritize access to jobs, region of residence, and entitlement to items distributed through the Public Distribution System (PDS). Everyone in North Korea, with the exception of cooperative farmers, depends on the PDS for the basic food rations they require for survival. Therefore, vulnerability and need have more to do with political and social standing than age and gender, the criteria used by aid organizations to define target beneficiaries."
msf.org
>>The Mystery Children - North Korea turned away doctors who wanted to help starving children. One aid worker's reflections.<<
msf.org
>>A disturbing example of the control over aid agencies was the discovery by MSF teams of a group of children in an appalling state of malnutrition and disease in Pyongsong hospital. MSF was denied information on the children's background, and not allowed to treat them; their past and future is unknown. What is known is that between 1994 and 1996, the crude mortality rate for children aged younger than 5 years increased from 31 to 58 per 1000 children. <<
msf.org
>>Defectors From North Korea Tell of Prison Baby Killings<<
nytimes.com
Testimony to the House of Representatives by a former political prisoner:
house.gov |
