UN Report: 40 Percent Of North Korea's Population Is Facing Hunger. Most Must Pay Bribes To Survive

Reuters: North Koreans paying bribes to survive: U.N. report

GENEVA (Reuters) - North Koreans are forced to pay bribes to officials to survive in their isolated country where corruption is “endemic” and repression rife, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday in a report that Pyongyang dismissed as politically motivated.

The report said officials extorted money from a population struggling to make ends meet, threatening them with detention and prosecution - particularly those working in the informal economy.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), the formal name for North Korea, rejected the report, saying it was “politically motivated for sinister purposes”.

“Such reports are nothing more than fabrication ... as they are always based on the so-called testimonies of ‘defectors’ who provide fabricated information to earn their living or are compelled to do so under duress or enticement,” its Geneva mission said in a statement to Reuters.

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WNU Editor: The UN report is here .... The price is rights: The violation of the right to an adequate standard of living in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (United Nations)

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