North Korea's hunger

Women are trading sex for food in North Korea.

"...Prostitution — long associated with the national shame of 'comfort women' enslaved by imperial Japan — is back as desperate families try to survive Kim Jong-il’s nuclear standoff with the outside world.

"The women beckoning from the shadows show that Kim’s totalitarian rule is beginning to disintegrate. They come out on the streets in the evening and overtly lure older men who enjoy party privileges and access to food, the travellers said.

"Abandoning Korea’s strict Confucian sexual morality, the women take customers to apartments or hotel rooms available only to officials, and the police do nothing to enforce the law.

"The regime has also given up trying to stop private traders setting up stalls at crossroads selling pastries, nuts, snacks and beer."

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