Apparently it is also taking place in N. Korea. I pinged TLR (who is very knowledgeable re: Asian communists) to see if he has any personal insights to add to the discussion:
Famine’s Toll
Tens of thousands starved in the latest famine, from 1995 to 1997. Lee, who asked that her given name not be used, was a clerk in a government office who notarized the deaths in her town. She is a pretty young woman, 29, with tumbling hair curling to her shoulders and smooth, flawless skin that belies the hardships she has faced and struggles to explain. “We started seeing cannibalism,” she recalled, pausing. “You probably won’t understand.”
She went on: “When one is very hungry, one can go crazy. One woman in my town killed her 7-month-old baby, and ate the baby with another woman. That woman’s son reported them both to the authorities.
“I can’t condemn cannibalism. Not that I wanted to eat human meat, but we were so hungry. It was common that people went to a fresh grave and dug up a body to eat meat. I witnessed a woman being questioned for cannibalism. She said it tasted good.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A41966-2003Oct3?language=printer
There is a prophecy in Deuteronomy that says that people will do that during the siege on Jerusalem during the Great Tribulation.