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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: bijou on June 09, 2008, 09:44:10 AM

Title: Father slays family as hunger returns to haunt North Korea
Post by: bijou on June 09, 2008, 09:44:10 AM

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THE first case of murder and suicide caused by North Korea’s new food crisis has emerged with the account of a man who killed his hungry wife and children and then took his own life in despair.

The family’s precarious existence became desperate after officials forbade the wife and other vendors to sell noodles in a local market, their only source of income. Such arbitrary rulings are common.

This one led to a fight between the wife and her husband. Neighbours heard the sounds as he battered her to death, then strangled his three-year-old son and two-year-old daughter, but took it as one of their regular domestic disputes. The husband hanged himself from a beam.

The deaths caused widespread shock in a society where family bonds are revered. They set off a mobilisation of Korean Workers’ party cadres and collective farm managers to keep watch on households at risk of starvation.


The report was published on an exile website, Daily NK, and quoted North Korean witnesses contacted by telephone in Shin-yang county, a poor rural area. It was a rare piece of apparently credible evidence that North Korea - which lost about a million people to famine in the 1990s - is once again running out of food.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4087559.ece

There is more at the length, a horrific read. Kim Jong-Il can't go soon enough.

Title: Re: Father slays family as hunger returns to haunt North Korea
Post by: Tucker on June 09, 2008, 10:32:12 AM

This will be a big hit at the DUmp. They love these kind of stories. They get to say "It's Bush's fault."

Title: Re: Father slays family as hunger returns to haunt North Korea
Post by: Uhhuh35 on June 09, 2008, 10:36:17 AM

With the price of fuel and food rising worldwide, it has to be even worse for them now. If that's even possible.

Title: Re: Father slays family as hunger returns to haunt North Korea
Post by: DixieBelle on June 09, 2008, 01:41:52 PM

I nearly puked in my shoes when I saw Christian Amanpour's flowery report on North Korea. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/27/amanpour.north.korea/index.html?eref=rss_topstories She got to visit with some N. Korean families to see how they lived. They were all "government officials" or "former govt officials" living in santized for your protection housing. Ugh.

Title: Re: Father slays family as hunger returns to haunt North Korea
Post by: MrsSmith on June 09, 2008, 07:25:22 PM

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They set off a mobilisation of Korean Workers’ party cadres and collective farm managers to keep watch on households at risk of starvation.

To feed them?  Or to make sure they starve quietly instead of making news?   :???:   :bawl:

Title: Re: Father slays family as hunger returns to haunt North Korea
Post by: Ptarmigan on June 09, 2008, 07:46:38 PM

**** KIM JONG-MENTALLY **** UP. HE CAN ROT IN HELL FOR ETERNITY!!!!!!!!!!
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