A starving man in North Korea has been
executed after murdering his two children for food, reports from inside
the secretive state claim.
A
'hidden famine' in the farming provinces of North and South Hwanghae is
believed to have killed up to 10,000 people and there are fears that
incidents of cannibalism have risen.
The
grim story is just one to emerge as residents battle starvation after a
drought hit farms and shortages were compounded by party officials
confiscating food.
Despite reports of the widespread
famine, Kim Jong Un, 30, has spent vast sums of money on two rocket
launches in recent months.
There
are fears he is planning a nuclear test in protest at a UN Security
Council 
punishment for the recent rocket launches and to counter what it
sees as US hostility.
punishment for the recent rocket launches and to counter what it
sees as US hostility.
One
informant was quoted as saying: 'In my village in May a man who killed
his own two children and tried to eat them was executed by a firing
squad.'
The
informant said the father killed his eldest daughter while his wife was away on
business and then killed his son because he had witnessed the murder.
When
his wife returned the man told her they had 'meat' but she became suspicious
and contacted officials who discovered part of the children's bodies.
- Jiro Ishimaru, from Asia Press, which compiled a 12 page report, said: 'Particularly shocking were the numerous testimonies that hit us about cannibalism.'
- Undercover reporters said food was confiscated from the two provinces and given to the residents of the capital Pyongyang.
- A drought then left food supplies desperately short.
The Sunday Times also quoted an official of the ruling Korean
Worker's party as saying: 'In a village in Chongdan county, a man who went mad
with hunger boiled his own child, ate his flesh and was arrested.
Source: Mail Online
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