VIDEO: Is North Korea starving and killing its own people? Here’s the evidence

Is North Korea starving and killing its own people? Here’s the evidence

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By Leslie Young

President Donald Trump took to Twitter Friday morning in the latest war of words and threats between the U.S. and North Korean leaders, with Trump calling Kim Jong-un a "madman."

U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted Friday morning that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is a “madman who doesn’t mind starving or killing his people,” as part of an escalating war of words between the two leaders.

Kim had earlier called Trump a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard.”

There’s a lot of truth to Trump’s claim that North Korea kills and starves its own people. Human rights organizations have long documented the regime’s atrocities, often by talking to those who escaped the tightly closed country. Here’s a look at some of the major charges.

Prison camps and executions

The CIA estimates the population of North Korea to be about 25 million people. Between 80,000 and 120,000 people are detained in one of the country’s massive prison camps for political prisoners, according to a 2014 estimate by the UN. That’s not including those in regular criminal prisons or labour camps. And, it’s fewer than there used to be.

“In the political prison camps of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the inmate population has been gradually eliminated through deliberate starvation, forced labour, executions, torture, rape and the denial of reproductive rights enforced through punishment, forced abortion and infanticide,” reads a UN special report on North Korea. “The commission estimates that hundreds of thousands of political prisoners have perished in these camps over the past five decades.”

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