[the Real fifi]

Tiger, I ALWAYS ENJOY READING WHAT YOU POST. Is this a South Korean publication? Did you translate it? How reliable is the source?

[TigerLikesRooster]

This is from a major S. Korean daily Donga Ilbo (one of the top three.) The article is in Korean. I translated first half and posted it.

It may hit foreign media later, sometimes in a day or two sometimes longer. On certain occasion, this kind of information got embedded in a related (foreign) article published later. I am just trying to give you the first crack.

There is certain amount of noise in these kind of reports. Sometimes several versions are floating around, and in some cases contradict each other.

However, malnutrition and hunger has been going on for some years. That is nothing new, but ordering them to take the afternoon off and go to sleep is a new development.

[TigerLikesRooster]

The reporter for this article, Zu Sung-ha, is a defector from Pyongyang who attended Kim Il-sung University, the best and the most selective(not just academically but also ideologically) university in N. Korea. He is no doubt from N. Korea's elite, and may have some connection among elite circle of N. Korea.