Cannibalism in North Korea

A man murdered his two children to eat them. He was then executed by the state.

People might get the idea that it must have happened in some exotic remote island.

Not really. It happened in no other place than North Korea.

Reports from inside the secretive state claimed that up to 10,000 people have starved to death, and even cannibalism has risen.

Residents have been suffering from perpetual starvation.

A drought hit the farms hard and food shortages were compounded by party officials’ confiscating food.

Undercover reporters from Asia Press told the Sunday Times that one man dug up his grandchild's corpse and ate it.

Another boiled his own child for food. Despite reports of the widespread famine, Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, has spent vast sums of money on two rocket launches in recent months.

Jiro Ishimaru, from Asia Press, which compiled a 12-page report, said, “Particularly shocking were the numerous testimonies about cannibalism.”

Undercover reporters said food was confiscated and given to the residents of the capital Pyongyang.

An official from the ruling Worker's party said, “In a village in Chongdan county, a man went mad with hunger. He boiled his son, ate his flesh, and was arrested.”

At the time, United Nations officials visited the area during a state-sponsored trip, but local reporters said that it is unlikely they were shown the famine-hit areas.

This is not the first report let out about cannibalism that has come out of the country.

North Korea was hit by a terrible famine in the 1990s - known as the Arduous March _ which killed as many as 3.5 million people.