North Koreans tell BBC of neighbours starving to death
Rare interviews with ordinary people inside the secretive state reveal chronic food shortages and starvation. …
Before the pandemic, more than 1,000 people would flee the country each year, crossing the Yalu River into China, according to numbers released by the South Korean government. The market trader Myong Suk told us it had become impossible to escape. “If you even approach the river now you will be given a harsh punishment, so almost nobody is crossing,” she said.
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