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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.
Updated: Feb 20 2021, 9:34 ET
NORTH Korean defections are now at “virtually zero” with Kim Jong-un’s grip never stronger due to a combination of Covid and crystal meth smuggling, The Sun can reveal.
The pandemic has made it almost impossible for anyone to escape the brutal regime with the despot increasing his already heavily fortified borders - while starving people are forced to eat grass and dirt, a North Korean rescue organization claims.
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Kim Jong-un s grip over his country has never been stronger, an aid group has warnedCredit: EPA
Now human traffickers aren’t even interested in the lucrative trade of smuggling people across the border in North Korea - worth upwards of $20,000 per person - but would rather export tonnes of methamphetamine, which has bigger profits and fewer risks.
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