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In North Korea it is not unusual for people to disappear. People were dying by the thousands, maybe millions. But dark rumors were spreading, too horrifying to believe, too persistent to ignore. Fear of cannibalism, like the famine supposedly driving it, spread. People avoided the meat in streetside soup vendors and warned children not to be alone at night. North Koreas famine may be over, but the stories of desperate men and women, driven so insane by starvation that they consume their own children, have resurfaced. According to Rimjingangs sources, the famine, like others before it, had led to cannibalism. One man, they said, had been arrested and executed for killing and eating his children. Maybe the stories of cannibalism are nothing more than that; rumors, stories from two decades prior that devolved into folklore. But cannibalism, for all the voyeuristic horror it inspires, is a symptom of something much worse: starvation and social breakdown, the conditions for which remain in North Korea.
(http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/392610/North-Korean-reveals-cannibalism-is-common-after-escaping-starving-state)
defacto7
(13,485 posts)I have always been attuned to the tragedy and the atrocity called North Korea. Such a bazaar, regime and tragic populous.
Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)The show Vice recently had some footage from visiting there. And Lisa Ling did a fantastic doc on DPRK some time ago. I watched it on NatGeo. Amazing stuff. The people there suffer so much and have no clue about the rest of the world. I just can't imagine. Or maybe I can, but don't want to.
dimbear
(6,271 posts)I have no clue whatever. Also little grasp why China doesn't step in and correct things.
Skullcracker.