A North Korean defector who fled the country aged 13 has described the horror of seeing bodies in the streets and eating insects to survive because of mass starvation in the secretive state. Yeonmi Park said cold, darkness and starvation were part of everyday life in the pariah kingdom where she grew up and blamed … Read more
A former senior North Korean diplomat has apologised for saying Kim Jong-un was likely so ill ‘he cannot stand up by himself or walk properly’ just three days before the dictator was seen smoking a cigarette at a public event. North Korea‘s former deputy ambassador to Britain, Thae Yong Ho, told CNN Kim’s ‘abnormal’ absence … Read more
North Korea is hiding the true devastation dealt to its people by coronavirus in a bid to spare China embarrassment, a senior defector has revealed. The regime is also desperate to keep its death toll from the people, he said, and was terrified of the ‘shockwaves’ that would rock society if the real impact was … Read more