North Koreans Need Love

North Korea is widely accused of having one of the worst human rights records in the world. North Koreans have been referred to as "some of the world's most brutalized people" by Human Right Watch because of the severe restrictions placed on their political and economic freedoms. The North Korean population is strictly managed by the state and all aspects of daily life are subordinated to party and state planning. Also the party on the basis of political reliability manages employment, and travel is tightly controlled by the Ministry of People's Security. There is no freedom for the North Korean. Kim Jung-Eun, the dictator of the North Korea, uses all the money to support their army by developing the machines and weapons such as nuclear weapons. Although significant numbers of the North Korean are dying from hunger and disease with the lack of the medical care support, the government of the North Korea does not care. North Korea, with a population of about 24.4 million, has experienced ongoing food shortages ever since the 1990s. Pregnant women, nursing mothers, and children under five years of age are most vulnerable to these shortages. They are at risk of becoming malnourished because their diets lack sufficient vitamins, fat, minerals and protein. Pregnant and nursing women are at an increased risk of under-nutrition because their nutritional needs are high. Poorly nourished women are likely to be deficient in vitamins and minerals, deliver low birth-weight babies and be unable to produce nutrient-rich breast-milk. Low birth-weight babies who do not receive much-needed nutrition-rich breast-milk are prone to infection, diarrhea, pneumonia, and chronic malnutrition. The combination of under-nutrition with other factors like poor maternal health, limited access to quality health care, and lack of clean water has caused nearly one in three young children in North Korea to be stunted. Not only does stunting impact a child’s physical development, it damages their...