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N. Korea: Destitute TV Girl Finally Died of Starvation (Tragic End to Horryfying Story)
Daily NK ^ | 12/09/10 | Kang Won Cheol

Posted on 12/09/2010 8:50:50 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Destitute TV Girl Finally Died of Starvation

By Kang Won Cheol

[2010-12-09 18:07 ]


▲ The 23-year old girl, as she appeared in the Asia Press film.

A 23-year old, poverty-stricken young woman who appeared in newspapers and on TV around the world when she was filmed by a cameraman inside North Korea died of starvation in October, it has been revealed.

The woman, who appeared in a KBS special program, “North Korea’s Third Generation Succession: Who Is Kim Jong Eun?” alongside global media including the BBC(UK) and Asahi TV(Japan) amply demonstrated the dire straits in which some North Korean people live. Reduced to rags following the death of both her parents, she said she wandered the fields looking for grasses.

Speaking with the cameraman, who asked what she planned to do with the grass, the girl, who admitted that she also slept outside, said, “I’m going to eat it.”

Speaking with The Daily NK today, Asia Press said, “According to Kim Dong Cheol, who interviewed the girl in South Pyongan Province while he was doing some research inside North Korea in June, she died on or around October 20th.”

“It was discovered that, without a home, she had been wandering in the market and on the streets, before dying in a corn field,” the Asia Press spokesperson explained, “Since then was harvest time, she went there to eat corn but seems to have died of starvation.”

Her body was apparently already decomposing by the time it was found, but the local People’s Safety Ministry agents were in no hurry to deal with it because she did not have any family, so it was left for a long time.

According to Asia Press, “The chaotic situation caused by the currency redenomination in November last year has caused an increase in kotjebi numbers across the country, and in some regions there have been people dying of starvation. She was also a victim of that impractical plan.”


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nkorea; starvation
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To: eastforker
Those are well cultivated fields in those pics.Also in those pics the girl doesn’t look all that starved, maybe malnutritioned but not starved to death.I’m just sayin, it takes alot for someone to actualy starve to death.

Probably. A little starvation plus a lot of exposure to the elements would easily kill a person in Korea.

61 posted on 12/09/2010 10:29:30 PM PST by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: NeverForgetBataan

.....”We WILL find horrors that are the equal of or exceed Nazi Germany......Guaranteed........The crimes committed in those places, against whole families, and multiple generations will make Saddam Hussein look like
Mother Theresa.”......

Exactly....the whole country lives in fear of being sent to those places...and rightfully so. The things done to these people are beyond that of the Jewish concentration camps...far beyond. The prisoners are taught the people are no less than animals. Interesting the way the guards have to be rotated every three months because they cannot endure seeing what they themselves do to these people. There seems to be a psycotic break so they rotate them out.

It is all maddness to the extreme. One soldier reported a woman covered with worms whose child had been butchered in her womb...further a shovel had been rammed up her. These things are commonplace.


62 posted on 12/09/2010 10:31:38 PM PST by caww
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To: meadsjn

Thats true, I spent 2 years there, coldest winter I ever seen.


63 posted on 12/09/2010 10:46:27 PM PST by eastforker (Visit me at http://www.eastforker.com)
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To: Hildy
The starving women was the "normal" for North Korea. Please get a copy and read The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag.

This is one book that can give you a sense of "reality" of what NK is about.
64 posted on 12/09/2010 11:08:14 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
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To: Tagurit
And the idiot liberals are fighting like hell to promote, support and advance socialism & communism in this Country. They have no idea of what they wish.

Agreed, this should be a lesson to the liberals.

This is horrible beyond belief.

I guess I kind of expect this kind of a thing in corrupt and tribal Africa, but a country with missle technology and nuclear weapons that can't or won't feed its people?

65 posted on 12/09/2010 11:12:48 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: GeronL

This woman has been in my thoughts ever since I saw the video a few weeks ago. Sad to realize that she was already dead by the time the world learned of her. I also wish that we had a name to go with her face. I don’t think that I will ever forget her.


66 posted on 12/10/2010 12:28:56 AM PST by Rybashka
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To: Hildy
" I have a question..WHY THE HELL DIDN’T THE NEWSPEOPLE WHO INTERVIEWED HER FEED HER? "

You made a good point.... the liberals are always in their self righteous mode being critical of Conservatives and people who have wealth for not helping the poor, but, yet, where is the liberal's outrage of this poor woman in North Korea starving to death ?
No matter what liberals say , they are the world's biggest hypocrites and what that say out of their mouth is not what they really believe in their hearts.
67 posted on 12/10/2010 1:07:58 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The face of COMMUNISM - and to think that Pelosi and Reid are trying to take us there.

Oh, sorry, not take us ‘there’, but take us to a much nicer utopia - just based on the same principals. LOL.


68 posted on 12/10/2010 1:20:33 AM PST by BobL
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To: Hildy

“I have a question..WHY THE HELL DIDN’T THE NEWSPEOPLE WHO INTERVIEWED HER FEED HER?”

Are you sure they didn’t? What were they supposed to do after feeding her, carry her out to China?


69 posted on 12/10/2010 1:22:31 AM PST by BobL
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To: William Tell

Ain’t that the truth...

:-(


70 posted on 12/10/2010 1:30:21 AM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: William Tell

“Most Americans are very ignorant of just how much work goes into creating the immense amount of food that we assume will always be in our supermarkets. Those same Americans are constantly supporting policies which threaten the ability to create and deliver that food at prices almost everyone here can afford. “

No kidding. One accurate EMP attack and 99.9% of this country will look like her. And in about 8 months (we have more blubber to start with), 90% of the country will suffer her fate.

We only live as we do thanks to our military - lose that protection and NOTHING ELSE MATTERS. We can have all the amnesty we want, government-run health care, green jobs, Social Security, etc. - doesn’t matter.


71 posted on 12/10/2010 1:30:25 AM PST by BobL
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To: Hildy
I have a question..WHY THE HELL DIDN’T THE NEWSPEOPLE WHO INTERVIEWED HER FEED HER?

Because like all liberals, they are only generous with other people's money.

72 posted on 12/10/2010 2:07:52 AM PST by zipper
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To: TigerLikesRooster

They have just passed a bill to control our food, any parallels here? naw, it can’t happen here.............
“control the food you control the masses” pass the popcorn dancin with the stars is about to start, did you see Barbara Walters special when Opray cryed? WILL SOMEONE PLEASE WAKE ME UP FROM THIS NIGHTMARE?


73 posted on 12/10/2010 3:53:56 AM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I just watched this video a couple days ago. I thought the translation was that she was selling the grass. When she was asked what she ate, she said nothing.
She also looks like she has a deformed hand.
I hope this REALLY goes viral now.


74 posted on 12/10/2010 4:26:41 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

OH TIGER I saw original interview on BBC world she show her arms off it was Like completly BONESSS

I bet Obama want negotilate with Chia Pet and Chia Chub


75 posted on 12/10/2010 9:22:13 AM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: SevenofNine

Obama would certainly bow to Chia Chub.


76 posted on 12/14/2010 12:38:04 AM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: PA Engineer
I have "The Aquariums of Pyongyang" as an audiobook. It's sad but fascinating book.
77 posted on 12/14/2010 9:42:14 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: justa-hairyape

They couldn’t give her anything, they were “beng watched”


78 posted on 11/04/2011 10:48:20 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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