North Koreans Tell of Deprivation as Kim Touts Prosperity
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North Korean defectors gave graphic testimony about deprivation and violence, in contrast to the image of socialist prosperity promoted by dictator Kim Jong Un at recent banquets celebrating a new ski resort and water parks.
Jo Jin Hye, 26, cried yesterday as she told United Nations human rights investigators in Washington about her father’s death en route to a gulag, a sister abducted while searching for food and forced into sex slavery in China and a newborn brother who died for lack of milk.