North Korean military honour guard standing to attention at Pyongyang's airport during a diplomatic visit Photograph: Stephen Shaver/AFP/Getty ImagesDefector Tells Of Life In North Korean Army -- BBC
Newsnight has spoken to two North Korean defectors about life inside the secretive Stalinist state, one of whom says that he was an anti-tank battalion commander in North Korea's army before fleeing.
Last month, UN Special Rapporteur Vitit Muntarbhorn issued a scathing report on human rights violations in North Korea, calling the situation there "abysmal".
Unsurprisingly, voices from inside the country are rare - dissenting voices rarer still - but the BBC's Newsnight programme has spoken to two defectors who paint a grim picture of life inside North Korea.
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My Comment: The misery that exists in that country is unimaginable.
My contacts in South Korea tell me that while they are not afraid of a North Korean attack, they are sensitive to the misery that is ongoing to their cousins in the north. On one side people are enjoying the best that modern society can give .... on the other side .... hunger and living in fear within a police state is what passes for normal.