If you guys are going to call North Koreans unbelievable psychopaths for that you should listen to that army officer that defected who claims to have been a commander in a concentration camp. He says he oversaw human experimentation that involved gassing women and children, among other terrible things. Whether or not he's lying remains to be seen.
You mean this footage?
Yeah, that's one of them, though I distinctly remember seeing one of shabbily dressed kids walking around with no visible parents and a kid lying on the ground bent double, his face all twisted up. Nobody giving a damn. During the famine people just used to step over corpses because they were so traumatised.
I have found one version of the video, though someone put an irritating soundtrack to it and gave it a really stupid title, my advice is to just mute it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOM-iLDa-BQI believe it was taken by a group of activists within the country I heard about in a documentary. They smuggled a video camera into the DPRK and put it in a brown bag with a hole in it. They would then carry it around, filming what they saw. They'd smuggle the videos across the border.
Sigh. Must be the nukes. I don't think Laos was an especially powerful nation, so I'd imagine it didn't want to take SK's side justin case NK goes crazy.
I think Laos and Cambodia traditionally had quite good relationships with North Korea anyway. Cambodia's king used to get on very well with Kim Il-sung. There's quite a few South Korean Christian groups operating in Cambodia nowadays helping out defectors.
A lot of the videos that used to be on youtube have been taken down. I had to find the video of the starving girl on liveleak:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1dd_1364601643&comments=1