The fate of children in North Korea

Tyrannical dictatorships use starvation as a means of control and ethnic cleansing. In rural areas of North Korea, there is no food, clean water, medicine or fuel for heat.

Humanitarian relief experts report that more than 4 million North Koreans, including children, have died of starvation since 1995, despite the fact that North Korea receives more food aid than any other nation in the world.

Eye witnesses report that President Kim Jong II stockpiles food for the military. Others report that the president also sells donated food for cash.

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N. Korean defector says disabled newborns are killed
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born, a physician who defected from the communist state said on Wednesday.

Ri Kwang-chol, who fled to the South last year, told a forum of rights activists that the practice of killing newborns was widespread but denied he himself took part in it.

"There are no people with physical defects in North Korea," Ri told members of the New Right Union, which groups local activists and North Korean refugees.

He said babies born with physical disabilities were killed in infancy in hospitals or in homes and were quickly buried.

The practice is encouraged by the state, Ri said, as a way of purifying the masses and eliminating people who might be considered "different."


A North Korean female refugee in a state of extreme malnutrition says she lost all other family members due to starvation before fleeing to China.