North Korea's starvation is not the result of natural disasters. The calamity is man-made. Only the regime's overthrow will end it. Human rights are nonexistent. Peasants, slaves to the regime, lead lives of utter destitution.
Ordinary people starve and die.
They are detained at the caprice of the regime. I will recount some of my experiences. Early in my spell in North Korea I was summoned to treat a workman who had been badly burned by molten iron. I volunteered my own skin to be grafted onto him. With a penknife, my skin was pulled from my left thigh and applied to the patient.