Kim Jong-un strengthens grip over North Korea as 'Covid makes it impossible to escape'
Brian McGleenon
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The coronavirus pandemic has made it nearly impossible for defectors to escape as the regime has fortified its borders and ramped up security. As a result, sources within North Korea have revealed stark descriptions of brutality and starvation. A North Korean rescue organisation has said people within the secluded nation have been forced to eat grass and dirt. Human traffickers have forfeited their former lucrative trade in smuggling people across the border in North Korea to export tonnes of methamphetamine instead. The drug trade provides bigger profits and has fewer risks.