Sources inside the Korean Peninsula say the brutal regime has deprived soldiers of the Korean People’s Army of a decent well-being in order to ramp up military training.
One defector claimed that standard issue-boots were full of holes, leaving troops vulnerable to frostbite during harsh winters.
Kim Eunjung, who escaped the hermit kingdom in her early thirties after serving ten years as a junior officer, added that food was of the lowest quality, with rice that was cut with low-grade corn, which was often stale, mouldy, unhusked and full of stones that broke soldiers’ teeth.
Ms Kim, a pseudonym to protect her family in the North, said: “Everyone was sick in the army, all the time.
“They took away what should have been the ten most beautiful years of my life.”
She added that cabbage and radish was chopped up and served with dirt from the fields still clinging to it.
Speaking of the dictator’s savage treatment of military soldiers, she added: “We were supposed to have meat at new year, but i never saw it in my whole time in the army.”
Under Kim Jong-il, the predecessor to the current Korean dynasty, soldiers were kept well fed, however, the regime is no longer able to provide for them.
Lee Cook-jong, the chief surgeon, said: “In my 20 years as a surgeon, I have only seen something like this in a medical textbook.”
The shocking revelations of the appalling conditions of life in North Korea comes as a white paper released by the chubby dictator’s governmental department of Social Sciences claimed the country is a bastion of human rights.
The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that the Human Rights Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences issued a white paper that attempts to “clarify who has defended human rights and who has violated them.”
According to the KCNA’s English-language report, the white paper stated: “The DPRK is a country where genuine human rights are firmly protected and successfully put into practice as the working masses’ democratic freedom and rights are most thoroughly defended and most brilliantly realised.”
The report said the white paper also slammed the United States for “styling itself a human rights judge” while finding fault with human rights records in other nations and accused Washington of trying to justify its own human rights violations.
The paper then argued the only way to defend sovereignty and human rights is to bolster the military force.