Pyongyang's Missile Potential and American Plans for NMD and TMD Russian experts have come to the conclusion that a North Korean long-range missile arsenal does not yet exist. However, Russian analysts believe that there is a strong possibility that the DPRK leadership will abandon its long-range missile effort in exchange for economic aid and investment from the United States. The number of refugees in northeastern China continues to grow as North Koreans flee from malnutrition and famine in their country. The refugees complain that they have spent years subsisting on a diet of grass and shredded bark mixed with an occasional spoonful of rice. They describe train stations in the DPRK as crowded with homeless people who sleep in the waiting room seats or on floors that are crawling with vermin.
Malnourished children lie down in the streets to die.
Of the estimated 30,000 North Koreans in China's three northern provinces, over 75 percent are females who were sold to Chinese as wives or prostitutes. This trade is helped by the fact that many women in China's Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture had left their villages for Chinese cities in hopes of finding better jobs. This forces ethnic Korean farmers in rural areas to struggle to find brides. All rights reserved.