(Christian News Alerts) – It is a well-known fact that North Korea is a horrific place to live. Now, more North Korean defectors have started to give testimonies about life under the North Korean regime. UPI reports that one of the facts the defectors have shared is that
(Christian News Alerts) – It is a well-known fact that North Korea is a horrific place to live.
Now, more North Korean defectors have started to give testimonies about life under the North Korean regime. UPI reports that one of the facts the defectors have shared is that orphaned children have been forced to feed on corn extracted from cow dung, or lice, during the Great Famine.
Lee Wi-Reok, one of the defectors, told Daily NK that his experiences as an orphaned child in North Korea during the late 1990s have continued to haunt him to this day. He stated that certain diseases like tuberculosis were lethal because they did not have a cure. “After I came to South Korea, I was amazed to learn that tuberculosis is a disease that can be treated,” he said.
North Koreans lived in miserable conditions, but according to Lee, orphans dealt with far worse than the rest of the country. “If a cow excreted kernels of corn in the form of diarrhea, we would rinse them out and eat those,” he stated.
Lee also discussed the fact that children would stave off hunger by consuming lice. “When you bite into lice they would burst with blood,” he said. Lee also indicated that the children would eat the lice because they believed it would be a waste to let them go.
The orphanages’ administration officials would “disinfect” children by building a bonfire around them. They would “beat the children with a stick” if they attempted to escape the bonfire.
Of course, the Kim regime has denied its many human rights abuses. They blame the Western world for their troubles.
