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To: John Hunt who wrote (27689)	2/4/1999 6:33:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Respond to of 117066

Reports from the border of China and North Korea << This week I witnessed and heard scenes of human suffering with virtually no parallel. Through my binoculars, looking across the frozen Tumen River, I was able to see firm evidence of a society that after years of starvation has descended into medieval barbarism. According to refugees, three million North Koreans have died of famine out of a population of just 20 million, the result of a Stalinist regime that prefers to see children die rather than open its impoverished country to the world. While the privileged ruling class and military leaders are looked after in the capital Pyongyang, often fed from overseas aid, nothing is getting through to this remote border province that famine has gripped for four years. One of the few signs of life are the ox carts picking up the bodies of the dead, not unlike those that took away victims of the Black Death in Europe. -- cont'd -- >> the-times.co.uk Disturbing and dangerous. :-((