UN investigator: 11 million North Koreans are undernourished

North Koreans watch a news broadcast on a video screen outside Pyongyang Railway Station in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. Last Updated Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:27AM EDT

Quintana said the government, which has primary responsibility for ensuring access to food, "is violating its human rights obligations due to its failing economic and agricultural policies." "The country's economic resources are being diverted away from the essential needs of the people," he said. "Pervasive discrimination in the public distribution system means that ordinary citizens, especially farmers and people in rural areas, have not been receiving any rations."

Ironically, he said, the government's failure to regulate nascent market activity is creating increasing inequality based on wealth, "where only those with money have access to basic rights such as education, health care, freedom of movement and adequate housing." "If you are considered to be a spy of the hostile countries or a traitor, when in reality you are simply exercising your basic human rights, you can be suddenly taken by agents of the Ministry of State Security to a kwanliso and never be seen again," Quintana said. "Suspects' families are never informed of the decisions or of the whereabouts of their relatives."

...no surprise there, Kim just doesnt care..

You don’t say?

What about Canadians? trudeau sure does not give a shit!!

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