No disabled people in the DPRK

Two days ago I posted about how there is no taxes in North Korea. Here's an article saying there are no disabled people either. They're killed at birth.

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born, a physician who defected from the communist state said on Wednesday.

Ri Kwang-chol, who fled to the South last year, told a forum of rights activists that the practice of killing newborns was widespread but denied he himself took part in it.

"There are no people with physical defects in North Korea," Ri told members of the New Right Union, which groups local activists and North Korean refugees.

He said babies born with physical disabilities were killed in infancy in hospitals or in homes and were quickly buried.

The practice is encouraged by the state, Ri said, as a way of purifying the masses and eliminating people who might be considered "different."

Just more proof North Korea is hell on earth.

You have to take anything a defector says with a grain of salt but I find this believable. The DPRK also institutionalizes triples because Kim il-Jong's paranoid fear of threes.

I hate to say this, but the killing of babies with disabilities happens here in the US. There are Mothers who have an amniocentesis done and find out the child has Downs's Syndrome or disability abort the child instead of bringing it into the world. Me and the wife are childless, we would take a Down's baby or a disabled child in a heartbeat.

Hat tip- Kobayashi Maru
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