People in North Korea dying from starvation
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A Seoul based human rights group has released a video containing testimonies of highly influential North Koreans.
Its aim is to highlight the urgent need for desperately needed food aid to be flown into the country.
The group, Good Friends says from evidence gathered the reclusive nation is on the brink of a famine.
The group has just released a video featuring a series of interviews providing testimonials by what the group describes as highly influential North Koreans.
Their faces were hidden from the cameras with their voices deliberately distorted to protect their identities.
Famine predicted
Erica Kang the Director of the Good Friends Centre for Peace, Human Rights and Refugees has told Radio Australia's Connect Asia program evidence gathered from within North Korea points towards another possible famine as experienced in the 1990's.
She says this famine killed as many as 3 million.
"Army officers in Pyongyang are actually deserting their army bases because they are so fed up with the malnutrition problem," she said.
The United Nation's World Food Program believes the situation in North Korea has become serious.
The program's Asia spokesperson Paul Risely says chronic food shortages have been exacerbated by the cessation of aid from regular donors.
