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Saturday, January 24, 2004 |
North Korea Executing Starving People For Stealing Food. Actually, executions for stealing food are nothing new, as most of our visitors must realize. What has changed is the polarization of society, as conditions worsten for the still-surviving people in the closed areas and improve for the elite in Pyongyang and other cities. In North Korea, appearances are all-important. For example, Pyongyang is regularly purged of the handicapped, the aged, and everyone who is not part of the core hereditary group. by Jim Lobe North Korea has been using food as an instrument of political and economic control, says a major new report by Amnesty International (AI). While the country has been unable to produce enough food for all of its citizens since the collapse of the Soviet... [Free North Korea!]
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CHINA STRUGGLES TO EDUCATE ALL CHILDREN [RFA]
Around 10 percent of children can't afford a basic education
China's economy may be booming, with rapid development in rich urban areas fuelling its image as an Asian power on the rise. But in-depth reporting by Radio Free Asia (RFA) highlights a major struggle among China's poorest communities to provide a basic education for their children--a right supposedly guaranteed by the state. [more]
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