KCNA/Reuters
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last week declared the United States as his country's "sworn enemy," and vowed to resume nuclear and long-range missle tests.
“In a village in Chongdang county, a man who went mad with hunger boiled his own child, ate his flesh and was arrested,” the official from the Korean Worker’s Party told Asia Press.
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Human rights groups estimate that more than 10,000 people may have died last year due to starvation in the famine-plagued country.
Meanwhile, the latest report on cannibalism comes at a time of renewed tension between North Korea and the United States.
Last week, Jong Un lashed out at the U.S. as the “sworn enemy” of North Korea, and vowed to restart nuclear and long-range missile testing.
That posturing drew a sharp rebuke from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“With a new young leader we all expected something different,“ Clinton said Monday during a State Department broadcast. ”We expected him to focus on improving the lives of the North Korean people, not just the elite but everyone. Instead he has engaged in very provocative rhetoric and behavior.”
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