Father Slays Family As Hunger Returns To Haunt North Korea

From Times Online:

The first case of murder and suicide caused by North Korea’s new food crisis has emerged with the account of a man who killed his hungry wife and children and then took his own life in despair.

The family’s precarious existence became desperate after officials forbade the wife and other vendors to sell noodles in a local market, their only source of income. Such arbitrary rulings are common.

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My Comment: This story struck me because it brings back a bit of my father's history. He grew up in the Ukraine during the famine of 1932-33. The one experience that has always stayed with him from that famine was when his best friends mother came by their home begging for any leftover potato peels. Apparently my grandmother had none to give.

The night my father's best friends family committed suicide, burning down their small house at the same time. My father has never forgotten that experience.