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Rachel Hagan

Mum and son starve to death after she's sentenced for breaking Covid laws in North Korea

A North Korean mother and her son starved to death after she was sentenced to hard labour for violating Covid rules, a new investigation has revealed.

People in the highly controlled state have risked their lives to tell the BBC how food is now so scarce that their neighbours have starved to death.

Three North Korean nationals communicated in secret to reveal the post-Covid disaster inside what has become the most secretive and closed-off state in the world.

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