Families are starving to death amid fears of widespread famine in Kim Jong-un’s North Korea

FAMILIES are starving to death amid fears of widespread famine in North Korea, it has emerged. Dictator Kim Jong-Un shut the isolated country’s borders in 2020 when the Covid pandemic started. EPAFamilies are starving to death amid fears of widespread famine in Kim Jong-Un’s North Korea[/caption] And the tyrant — nicknamed Rocket Man — halted the import of grain from nearby China. He then ordered his army to crack down on foreign food smuggling. Construction worker Chan Ho said: “Every day it gets harder to live. “One wrong move and you are facing execution. “We’re stuck here waiting to die.” Expert Peter Ward said: “Middle-class people are seeing starvation in their neighbourhoods. “This doesn’t look good.” Hanna Song, director of human rights charity NKDB, added: “For the past 10-15 years we have rarely heard of cases of starvation. “This takes us back to the most difficult time in North Korean history.”