after kim jong-un came to power. we protected her identity because she had to leave some of her family behind. fighting back tears, she tells me she got out, risking death if she was caught, so she could live. translator: my family had decided to commit suicide because for three days we didn t have anything to eat. we decided to starve to death. we said let s die. but then i wanted to survive. i sold the house for 30 kilos of rice. reporter: millions have little food. this footage smuggled out was filmed last month. reports from inside north korea suggest food prices have tripled in a year. translator: to survive i had to eat grass. people picked grass and leaves. they used them to make soup. reporter: what do you think of kim jong-un and what do you think of what he s threatening
decided to commit suicide, because the three days we didn t have anything to eat. we decided to starve to death. we said, let s die. but then i wanted to survive. i sold the house for 30 kilos of rice. reporter: millions have little food. this footage smuggled out was filmed last month. reports from inside north korea suggest food prices have tripled in a year. translator: to survive, i had to eat grass. people picked grass and leaves. they used them to make soup. what do you think of kim jong-un and what do you think of what he s threatening to do? translator: kim jong-un is trying to be more extreme than his father. and trying to distract the north korean people from their own problems and complaints. reporter: south korean pop in
this, the psychology of the people, they re thinking that oh, i survived, you all die. it s not that. you re going to die and i m going to die as well. that s what they re thinking. reporter: another former north korean agent says she thinks kim jong-un is using provications to compensate for youth and inexperience. translator: he is struggling to gain complete control over the military and win their loyalty. reporter: she was cone victimed of blowing up a south korean airliner in 1987. she was captured alive whether she didn t bite her cyanide pill in time. she was sentenced to death in south korea but then pardoned. translator: north korea is using a nuclear program to keep the people in line and put south korea and the united states for concessions. this woman who defected in 2000, occupies her days in ways you wouldn t expect. these days she makes a living this way, playing concerts on
fighting back tears, she tells me she got out, risking death if she was caught, so she could live. translator: my family had decided to commit suicide, because the three days we didn t have anything to eat. we decided to starve to death. we said, let s die. but then i wanted to survive. i sold the house for 30 kilos of rice. reporter: millions have little food. this footage smuggled out was filmed last month. reports from inside north korea suggest food prices have tripled in a year. translator: to survive, i had to eat grass. people picked grass and leaves. they used them to make soup. what do you think of kim jong-un and what do you think of what he s threatening to do? translator: kim jong-un is trying to be more extreme than his father. and trying to distract the north korean people from their own problems and complaints.