Hunger, with whom North Korea faced in the 1990s, was truly terrifying: the new bodies of the dead appeared on the streets every day, and despair brought some to the cannibalism. About this “Lente.ru” said Zhyhen Pak, refugee from North Korea and human rights activist.
Pak recalls that food problems began in the early 1990s, and soon the card system collapsed in the country, from which most residents depended. His uncle died of hunger. “When I saw his body, he was not like a person. One bones, covered with leather,” the woman told.
To survive, the family had to sell all the property. Food all in a row: root, seeds, edible grass caught in the sea of mussels and even caught rats. It happened that the woman eaten something, and after a few days he drank only water. “People lost their mind from hunger, killed and ate other people. They ate even children. What power should have been hunger, so that people go to such?” – she exclaimed.
In mid-June, the leader of the DPRK Kim Jong Yun, speaking at the plenum of the Central Committee of the Korea of the Korea, announced a possible threat of hunger in the country. According to him, the intense situation with food has developed due to Typhoon in 2020. Previously, he already called on the party and residents of the country to be ready for a new “hard campaign”. So in the country they call the period of economic crisis and terrible hunger of the 1990s.
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