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North Korea Kills Disabled Babies
North Korea has no people with birth defects because they are routinely slaughtered almost as soon as they are born, a defector said on Wednesday. Ri Kwang-chol, a physician who fled to South Korea last year, told rights activists that the practice of killing newborns was widespread, but said he had no part in it. "There are no people with physical defects in North Korea," Ri told members of the New Right Union, which aids North Korean refugees. He said babies born with physical disabilities were killed in hospitals or in homes and quickly buried, Reuters reports.
Story Continues Below The practice is encouraged by the state, according to Ri, to eliminate people who might be considered "different." The aid group urged the South Korean government to abandon its stated strategy of "silent diplomacy" and immediately begin pressuring the North to improve its human rights record. "The government should stop trying to avoid upsetting Kim Jong-Il," said another defector, Kim Young-sun a prison camp survivor referring to the North Korean leader. "It should try to upset Kim Jong-Il. South Korea has come under fire from human rights groups for abstaining in votes on U.N. measures to condemn the North's human rights record.
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