Over the past few days, we have talked about the concentration camps in North Korea. Today we will talk about the country itself. The current leader of North Korea is Kim Jong-Un. He took power in 2011, after his father Kim Jong-Il died suddenly. Kim Il-Sung was the first leader. He is the father of Kim Jong-Il, and the leader of North Korea during the korean war. He lead all the way to the mid 1990's. North Korea also is in possession of nuclear weapons.
The North Korean flag.
Adults in North Korea are an average of 6 inches shorter than adults the same age in South Korea. This is because of malnutrition in North Korea. Only the richest of the rich eat enough. There is only about 1% of the entire population (there are 14 Million people in North Korea). Citizens are so hungry that hundreds starve every day. People will pick through cow droppings to find undigested kernels of corn that they can eat. They will eat grass. There are no birds in North Korea because they were all eaten decades ago. Their technology is stuck at where it was when there was a cease fire at the end of the korean war in 1953. They have no allies (with the debatable exception of China).What I find even more sad is that while all this is happening, the rest of the world just sits around and watches. What will the next generation say about us???
This satellite image taken in 2003 shows how much light there is in North Korea at night.
A starving North Korean child.
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