Pyongyang, May 21 (ANI): North Korea has executed three people for cannibalism, as the country struggles with widespread hunger, according to think tank's new report.
The claims have been made by the South Korean state-run Korean Institute for National Unification, The Daily Mail reports.
Its white paper on human rights outlines information from 230 defectors reportedly seen the public executions, which have been carried out since 2006.
The report said that the people were killed for eating or selling human flesh.
The report revealed that authorities executed one man as he killed his co-worker for eating his body parts and then tried to sell the rest at a market as mutton.
Widespread food shortage in the country had forced another man to kill and eat a girl three years ago in Hyesan.
The internationally isolated country has long battled against food shortages, especially after an attempt to reform its currency in 2009.
A North Korean official who defected in 2001 said about a dozen incidents of cannibalism have been known as far back as 1999.
The allegations of cannibalism that was followed after a huge famine in the late 1990s killed about two million people.
Based on satellite imagery and interviews with escapees and former guards, the committee said entire families have been sometimes imprisoned for killing one person.
The North Korean Government has however denied that prisoners have ever excaped. (ANI)
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