Cannibalism Reported in Famine-Stricken North Korea Numerous reports from North Korea indicate that starving residents of the isolated regime, where famine is an all-too-regular occurrence, may now be resorting to cannibalism. One report from the British newspaper The Sunday Times stated that a man was put to death by firing squad after officials discovered he had killed and cooked two of his own children. "While his wife was away on business, he killed his eldest daughter and, because his son saw what he had done, he killed his son as well. When the wife came home, he offered her food, saying: 'We have meat,'" the Times reports. "But his wife, suspicious, notified the Ministry of Public Security, which led to the discovery of part of their children's bodies under the [home's] eaves.",. Another unconfirmed report details the arrest of a man who allegedly dug up the body of his dead grandchild and ate the flesh. Elsewhere, a man who reportedly killed 11 people and sold their remains as pork was executed by firing squad.
