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Mass
Starvations Occurring in the Breadbasket
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January 2013
Rimjin-gang - ASIAPRESS
North Korea Reporting Team
For Immediate Release
Our team is the North Korea Reporting
Team of ASIAPRESS, a news agency based
in Japan. Based on unique sources that
do not undergo censorship by the North
Korean authorities, the team has been
reporting on North Korea from an independent
standpoint. In the past, we have been
covering North Korean politics, the economy,
the food situation, human rights issues
and other matters, communicating with
media in countries across the world in
the form of news, publications, and documentaries.
Inside cooperators within North Korea
have been providing us with information.
Our reporting team has also been in contact
with North Korean nationals in China along
the border with North Korea to gather
their testimonies.
Based on the information we have gathered,
we firmly believe that in 2012, a large-scale
famine hit the Hwanghae region to the
southwest of Pyongyang. We estimate that
the number of deaths may have exceeded
ten-thousand. The
North Korean government has disclosed
nothing on the situation, neither has
it taken any fundamental measures to counter
the famine. Residents are facing dire
circumstances, and we have been communicating
this fact to the world media.
We have compiled an emergency report for
international organizations, humanitarian
relief organizations and media. This is
with hopes that you will be able to utilize
this report, and that international organizations
will express interest in the serious starvation
issues that exist in North Korea, and
that from a humanitarian viewpoint, you
will be able to encourage the North Korean
government to allow on-site fact-finding
surveys immediately, to prevent last year’s
tragedies from being repeated this year.
The
team will
continue its reporting activities from
inside North Korea, and will continue
to cover the situation in the Hwanghae
Provinces. We sincerely hope that media
and international organizations will express
special interest in this issue.
ISHIMARU Jiro (AISPARESS North Korea Reporting
Team)
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