NKorea defector: Starving prisoners ate babies

Two North Korean defectors testified on Wednesday, October 23 before a United Nations panel discussion on the atrocities they suffered in North Korean prison camps. Kim Hye-Sook detailed the difficulties of growing up in the prison camp with few clothes and almost no food. She narrated how some prisoners were so hungry they would even kill babies just to be able to eat. Kim and another defector Jung Kwang-Il told the UN how Pyongyang’s prison camp system subjected North Koreans to decades of starvation, hard labor and torture. In a rare occasion, North Korean diplomats attended the discussion and defended the country against allegations of torture.

Read the full story of Rappler’s Ayee Macaraig who reports from the UN Headquarters in New York here and here.