Famine-struck Koreans turn cannibals

HONG KONG, April 11: Incidents of cannibalism are emerging from Famine-stricken North Korea as residents, struggling to survive, were denied international food aid, it was reported here today.Much international aid was going to officials and the army, the South China Morning Post said in a report from Beijing quoting witnesses.

Aid agency Medicines Sans Frontiers had interviewed people on the Chinese side of the border with North Korea who said almost nothing was reaching those dying of disease, The Post reported.8220;Our neighbours ate their own daughter in order not to die of hunger. It is true. I saw it with my own eyes,8221; an unidentified 23-year-old from Buk Cheng village was quoted as saying.An 18-year-old orphan said; 8220;Our cousin killed, salted and ate an orphan whom no one cared about.quot;A Chinese Korean from Zhongjiang said that in one village a woman ate her two-year-old son so she would not die of starvation.