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N. Korea: Destitute TV Girl Finally Died of Starvation (Tragic End to Horryfying Story)

Daily NK ^ | 12/09/10 | Kang Won Cheol

Posted on by TigerLikesRooster

Destitute TV Girl Finally Died of Starvation

By Kang Won Cheol

[2010-12-09 18:07 ]



▲ The 23-year old girl, as she appeared in the Asia Press film.

A 23-year old, poverty-stricken young woman who appeared in newspapers and on TV around the world when she was filmed by a cameraman inside North Korea died of starvation in October, it has been revealed.

The woman, who appeared in a KBS special program, North Koreas Third Generation Succession: Who Is Kim Jong Eun? alongside global media including the BBC(UK) and Asahi TV(Japan) amply demonstrated the dire straits in which some North Korean people live. Reduced to rags following the death of both her parents, she said she wandered the fields looking for grasses.

Speaking with the cameraman, who asked what she planned to do with the grass, the girl, who admitted that she also slept outside, said, Im going to eat it.

Speaking with The Daily NK today, Asia Press said, According to Kim Dong Cheol, who interviewed the girl in South Pyongan Province while he was doing some research inside North Korea in June, she died on or around October 20th.

It was discovered that, without a home, she had been wandering in the market and on the streets, before dying in a corn field, the Asia Press spokesperson explained, Since then was harvest time, she went there to eat corn but seems to have died of starvation.

Her body was apparently already decomposing by the time it was found, but the local Peoples Safety Ministry agents were in no hurry to deal with it because she did not have any family, so it was left for a long time.

According to Asia Press, The chaotic situation caused by the currency redenomination in November last year has caused an increase in kotjebi numbers across the country, and in some regions there have been people dying of starvation. She was also a victim of that impractical plan.



TOPICS:

Foreign Affairs

News/Current Events

KEYWORDS:

nkorea

starvation





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by 2 posted onby TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)

To: TigerLikesRooster

What's it to THESE people?! /sarc AND, General "Fat Boy", junior, the "Youth Captain"?? He will be stuffing his fat lard ass tonight in Pyongyang, if not along with Daddy on a visit to Beijing eating all the Peking Duck and xieu mai that his large intestine can handle.



by 3 posted onby AmericanInTokyo (**George W Bush** bears as much responsibility as CARTER, CLINTON and OBAMA over N. Korean nukes)

To: TigerLikesRooster

A lot of people living in this country right now are calling in to conservative talk shows and asking the same question. “What’s wrong with socialism and communism?” They won’t bother reading this.



by 4 posted onby FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all of my FReeper FRiends!)

To: TigerLikesRooster

How does a country like North Korea manage to maintain 24 million bodies?



by 5 posted onby Soothesayer ("The vile person shall be no more called liberal" Isaiah 32:5-8)

To: FlingWingFlyer

Their brains don’t function properly. They know that North Korea is communist and it’s a horrible place. They just think that a little bit of socialism here and there is beneficial to all.



by 6 posted onby Soothesayer ("The vile person shall be no more called liberal" Isaiah 32:5-8)

To: TigerLikesRooster

Bump



To: Soothesayer

It doesn’t.



by 8 posted onby InvisibleChurch (Stimulus ~ Response / "...and that's why the color yellow makes me sad, I think.")

To: TigerLikesRooster

And the idiot liberals are fighting like hell to promote, support and advance socialism & communism in this Country.

They have no idea of what they wish.



by 9 posted onby Tagurit (Are your pigs fed, watered and ready to fly?)

To: Soothesayer

"Oh, and another thing Chris, while here, try our delicious Pyongyang Mul Naengmyung Noodles. They are just to die for!"



by 10 posted onby AmericanInTokyo (**George W Bush** bears as much responsibility as CARTER, CLINTON and OBAMA over N. Korean nukes)

To: TigerLikesRooster

That is sad. Beyond words. I bet starvation is the main cause of death in NK too



by 11 posted onby GeronL (#7 top poster at CC, friend to all, nicest guy ever, +96/-14, ignored by 1 sockpuppet.. oh & BANNED)

To: TigerLikesRooster

I have a question..WHY THE HELL DIDN’T THE NEWSPEOPLE WHO INTERVIEWED HER FEED HER?



To: AmericanInTokyo

Too bad, Fujimoto Kenji would be no longer there to make sushi and sashimi for him.



by 13 posted onby TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)

To: Soothesayer

Exactly. They think America can be a Marxist/socialist/communist state and still continue to be the same place that it has always been except everything will be “free”. “There’s no intelligent life on this planet.” - Star Trek



by 14 posted onby FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all of my FReeper FRiends!)

To: TigerLikesRooster

From each according to his ability too each according to his need Remember Socialists and commies "care" about people This truly saddens me and makes me wonder why the leftist here want that kind of power, I mean the power to starve this poor woman death, is what progress is?



by 15 posted onby KC_Lion (Lord help our Armed Service members that they not become pawns in Hussein's quest to destroy America)

To: Hildy

This was filmed during an undercover mission. Probably by another N. Korean, who also has to watch his/her back. Not sure he/she gave her something to eat.



by 16 posted onby TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)

To: Tagurit

- They have no idea of what they wish. But they do. They just think they will be the ones in charge with a nice little dacha and plenty of borscht.



To: Hildy

WHY THE HELL DIDNT THE NEWSPEOPLE WHO INTERVIEWED HER FEED HER? That is the perfect question. The sad part is the answer is that they are liberals- they claim to be compassionate but really they are apathetic. It just doesn't occur to them. They are too busy asking why someone else doesn't do something while they munch on a snicker's bar in front of a starving young woman.



To: TigerLikesRooster

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6MFN8yiVc0



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by 20 posted onby AmericanInTokyo (**George W Bush** bears as much responsibility as CARTER, CLINTON and OBAMA over N. Korean nukes)

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