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North Korean Defector Describes Forced Abortion, Said Bodies Fed To Dogs In Prison

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley held a meeting on the human rights situation in North Kore. One defector spoke about how she was forced to have an abortion.

Pleading for the world to act, the woman, Ji Hyeon-A, described a harrowing scene of prison dogs eating dead bodies at her prison camp.


Ji Hyeon-A was repatriated three times to North Korea, after she was caught in China. She finally escaped to South Korea and spoke of her horrifying experiences. She described how North Korean women who got pregnant in China were forced to have abortions saying:


Ji-Hyeon-A says North Korea does not allow for mixed-race babies. At one detention center, she described how inmates starved to death, and that after they died, their dead bodies were given to the guard dogs for food.

The third time Ji Hyeon-A was caught and sent back to North Korea, she says she was three months pregnant. She tearfully described how she was forced to have an abortion without medication at a local police station saying:

“My first child passed away without ever seeing the world. Without any time for me to apologize.”

Ji-Hyeon-A finally reached South Korea in 2007, and has since reunited with her mother, brother and her younger sister, but still, no news of her father. Ji-Hyeon-A said that the North Korean soldier who recently escaped to South Korea “represents a dash toward freedom which is a dream of 25 million North Koreans.”

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Ji-Hyeon-A criticized the Chinese government for sending North Koreans back to the regime, and urged the Chinese government to stop repatriating people back to the Hermit Kingdom. She says China knows what will happen to them when they get there.

Ji-Hyeon-A urged the U.N. and world leaders to fight for North Korean defectors, especially those who are repatriated. Ji-Hyeon-A recited a poem called “Is anyone there?” from a collection of poems she wrote.


I scream and yell but no one opens the door.



call out again and again but why don’t you answer.

Is anyone there?

Matthew Rycroft, Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations, praised Ji-Hyeon-A for speaking at the event, and said the crimes discussed — forced abortions, summary executions, hard labor, and rape — “are conditions that amount to crimes against humanity.”

Earlier in the day, China tried to stop a Security Council meeting convened by Japan on the human rights situation in North Korea. China only had the support of Russia and Bolivia, and failed in its attempt to stop it from moving forward.

At the Security Council meeting, Haley said the full story of the North Korean people needed to be told saying:



Haley says the Kim regime has imprisoned an estimated 100,000 people adding:


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