The digital detectives searching for North Korea’s disappeared
Lee Han-byeol has a favourite memory of her elder brother.
They were both teenagers in the 1990s, during the famine that devastated North Korea and is estimated to have killed hundreds of thousands of people. Impoverished, tired and hungry, the pair were travelling to pick up rice from relatives. They had been on the road overnight.
Lee’s eyes mist when she recalls how, as they walked through the darkness, Lee Se-il had swung her on to his back. As dawn broke, she clung wearily to his bony shoulders. “He really adored me,” she whispers, clutching a small black-and-white photo of him. By now, the tears are flowing steadily. “I hope I can see his face again.”
Nearly 1 in 5 North Korean children undernourished: report
Posted : 2021-05-05 13:16
Updated : 2021-05-05 17:34
In this June 3, 2020, file photo, students wearing face masks take a class at Kim Song Ju Primary School in Pyongyang, North Korea. An international report showed Wednesday that nearly one out of five children under the age of 5 in North Korea suffer from stunted growth. AP-Yonhap
Nearly 1 in 5 children under the age of 5 in North Korea suffers from stunted growth, and the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic is likely to exacerbate the trend for some years to come, an international report showed Wednesday.
The child stunting rate in the impoverished state was measured at 18.2 percent, or 317,800 children under the age of 5, at the end of 2020, according to a joint research by the U.N. Children s Fund, the World Health Organization and the World Bank published this month.
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