Grim reports have surfaced that some people in a famine-hit area of North Korea have turned to cannibalism because of extreme hunger. The Independent reported that a man has been executed in the highly secretive North Korea after he killed his two children for food.
Media reports are calling the famine "hidden" and covered up, but the farming provinces of North and South Hwanghae has been hit hard killing at least 10,000 people, according to interviews done by Asia Press.
The Independent reports the details as desperate and gruesome with one man having even been reported digging up his grandchild's corpse and another man boiling his children before eating them.
One person, based in South Hwanghae, said according to The Telegraph, "In my village in May, a man who killed his own two children and tried to eat them was executed by a firing squad. While his wife was away on business he killed his eldest daughter and, because his son saw what he had done, he killed his son as well. When the wife came home, he offered her food, saying: 'We have meat.' But his wife, suspicious, notified the Ministry of Public Security, which led to the discovery of part of their children's bodies under the eaves."
Jiro Ishimaru, from Asia Press said, "Particularly shocking were the numerous testimonies that hit us about cannibalism."
The stories have emerged as residences in the area are battling famine after a drought and party officials confiscated their food. Despite the reports of famine, North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, 30, has spent ridiculous sums of money on two rocket launches which have solicited fears that he is planning a nuclear test.
The Sunday Times also reported that an official of the ruling Korean Worker's party said, "In a village in Chongdan county, a man who went mad with hunger boiled his own child, ate his flesh and was arrested."
The Daily Mail reported that the United Nations visited the area during a state-sponsored trip but local reporters have noted that it is highly unlikely that they were taken to areas stricken with famine.
This is not the first time that rumors of famine have surfaced in Korea.
In May, the Korean Institute for National Unification said that a man was executed after he ate part of a colleague and then tried to sell his colleagues remains as mutton meat.
In 2011 another man killed and ate a girl while another man was executed this past May for killing 11 people and selling their bodies as "pork."
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