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THE full horrors of Kim Jong-un’s brutal regime are today laid bare in secret video images sneaked out of North Korea.

Among them is a child starving to death on a road while just yards away soldiers load enough rice on to trucks to feed families for weeks.

The grim revelations came as Foreign Secretary William Hague warned of tougher sanctions if Pyongyang tests more missiles.

The disturbing footage shows a young boy slumped on the grimy kerb in his filthy, oversized army jacket, as locals stroll past without even glancing in his direction or displaying an ounce of pity for his plight.

Nearby, his friends scavenge in rubbish tips for scraps of what might pass for food in a land where, according to those on the inside, people are so poor they are forced to eat tree bark or even corpses.

Not far away, prisoners are herded from harsh labour camps to ­frantically dig out crops from frozen ground, while trigger-happy troops hover over them waiting for the one wrong move that could end with death.

This is the real North Korea – the one its warmongering leader Kim Jong-un does not want the outside world to see. And the vision of hell is a far cry from the propaganda pictures shown on Wednesday of smiling people hailing their great leader as if all is rosy.

The images, taken by campaigners desperate to reveal the truth of Kim’s brutal regime, were handed to our sister paper the Daily Mirror.

Hague yesterday warned Pyongyang it faces harsher sanctions if it goes ahead with a fourth missile test.

Speaking at a G8 summit in London, he said: “If the DPRK conducts another missile launch or nuclear test, we have committed ourselves to take further ­significant measures. Clearly, what we’re talking about is in the field of ­sanctions.”

Hague spoke as North Korea moved a missile launcher into position with a range of 2180 miles amid fears it was training weapons on the US, Japan or Guam.

The dictator continued to ignore the plight of his starving people, while making sure the army was well stocked with food.

Near the starving boy – secretly filmed at Yang Gang county, near the Chinese border – bags bursting with food were being hauled on to ­vehicles destined for the potential battle zones along with the soldiers and millions of pounds worth of weaponry. Among them were well-dressed young women in high-heeled boots.

Pastor Kim Seung-Eun, a cleric who has helped more than 1000 North Koreans flee, has seen the footage.

Speaking at his home in the south, he said: “There are people in North Korea who are so hungry they have turned to cannibalism.

“One man was shot dead, executed because he ate half of another human being and sold the rest as meat. People are living like animals in that country.

“I do what I can to get as many out as possible but it is very dangerous, especially for the people on the inside who help me.

“Someone had told the person who filmed the footage this boy was dying by the side of the road. It is very distressing but I hope the world will be shocked by this and help more refugees and defectors to escape.”

The 48-year-old has been sneaking defectors out of the north for several years, often bribing hungry border guards and officials for help. It can cost him £5000.

He has also helped bring out video images, filmed by critics of the regime who face certain death if caught.

Pastor Kim said: “I cannot tell you if I have been inside, to go to North Korea for South Koreans would be a huge crime.

“I have friends who take the camera back inside and film the real truth of North Korea. It is important people realise how bad it really is in there.”

These images show how dehumanised North Koreans have become under the Communist government.

Human beings can walk past children starving to death because they themselves do not have a scrap of food.

One piece of footage shows a border guard pointing his machine gun down the lens of the cameraman after he has been spotted. The man had been filming from across the Chinese border and had to flee for his life.

These scenes are a world away from the capital Pyongyang from where its elite rule with a murderous iron fist.

In another of the films, the camera zooms in on a male and female gulag – a desolate prison in Haesan. Men and women are seen clawing at the solid ground to get at crops, no doubt destined for the army.

The prisoners are marched out of a labour camp – by soldiers wearing North Korean army uniforms. A sign on the entrance supports Kim and a red star emblem flies above.

They are forced to carry logs to rebuild a small footbridge and are also seen smashing up rocks.

Pastor Kim said: “Many years ago, I went to the border between China and North Korea. I will never forget the poverty, so I decided to do something about it.

“This was some of the most dangerous footage ever taken inside North Korea. It is impossible to make North Korea look attractive except in Pyongyang. This is the horror truth of the countryside.”