(The man in this photo is not the subject of the story; he's a North Korean farmer looking at his destroyed crops.)

Life in famine-ravaged North Korea does not appear to be getting better now  that Kim Jong Un has succeeded his infamous father, Kim Jong Il.

A man in South Hwanghae, North Korea was put to death by firing squad after  it was learned he had eaten his two children, the Sunday Times reported, citing  a story in the Asia Press.

“In my village in May, a man who killed his own two children and tried  to eat them was executed by a firing squad,” an unnamed citizen journalist told  Asia Press, which is based in Osaka, Japan. “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.’“

North Korea would neither confirm nor deny the account of the execution, the  Telegraph reported, but it is not the first time that the communist regime is  believed to have punished residents who resorted to cannibalism in order to stay  alive.

 

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