Estimates based on the North Korean census suggest that 240,000 to 420,000 people died as a result of the North Korean famine and that excess mortality during the whole period 1993 to 2008 was between 600,000 and 850,000.[1] The famine has been described as the result of the economic policies of the North Korean government[2] or as deliberate "terror-starvation".[3]
1 Haggard, Stephan; Noland, Marcus; Sen, Amartya (2009). Famine in North Korea. Columbia University Press. p. 209.
2 Rosefielde, Stephen (2009), Red Holocaust, Routledge, p. 109.
3 Rigoulot, Pierre (1999). "Crimes, Terror, and Secrecy in North Korea". The Black Book of Communism. Harvard University Press. pp. 547–564. ISBN 978-0-674-07608-2.To the 100,000 who have died in Party purges and the 1.5 million deaths in concentration camps must be added at least 1.3 million deaths stemming from the war, which was organized and instigated by the Communists, a war that continues in small but murderous actions, including commando attacks on the South and acts of terrorism; and the uncertain but growing number of direct and indirect victims of malnutrition. Even if we content ourselves with a figure of 500,000 victims of the primary or even secondary effects of malnutrition (including the usual, unverifiable rumors of cannibalism), we end up with an overall figure of more than 3 million victims in a country of 23 million inhabitants that has lived under Communism for fifty years.
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