Recently released images from Reuters Alertnet corroborate the testimonies of tens of thousands of North Korean refugees and the United Nations — innumerable people are dying of starvation in North Korea at this moment. So what must be done? In order to faithfully answer this question, it is necessary first to understand the genocidal nature of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea system.
Blaming poverty or natural disasters for the DPRK’s humanitarian catastrophe is a dangerous misnomer. Former special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, Vitit Muntarbhorn, stated unequivocally in his sixth and final report to the General Assembly that North Korea, which has the largest per capita army and the highest military expenditures measured by gross domestic product in the world, was by no means poor.
