North Koreans work on a rice field outside the North Korean capital of Pyongyang in October. (Image from MSNBC)North Korea Clamps Down On Mobile Phones To Stop
News Of Food Crisis -- Times Online
News Of Food Crisis -- Times Online
North Korea is clamping down on mobile phones and long distance telephone calls to prevent the spread of news about a worsening food crisis, according to the United Nations investigator on human rights for the isolated communist country.
In a report to the UN General Assembly, Vitit Muntarbhorn, a Thai law professor who has never been allowed to visit North Korea, said that its government is using public executions as a means of intimidating the population, and using spies to infiltrate and expose religious communities.
His report came two days after the World Food Programme said that two thirds of North Koreans do not have enough to eat, in the country’s worst crisis since as many as three million people died of famine a decade ago.
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My Comment: The entire country is now being shut down electronically. The only way information can now be transmitted is by mouth, and by foot.
It appears that we are on the verge of another North Korean famine.