Portrait of a Famine; Starving North Koreans Who Reach China Describe a Slowly Dying Country From: The Washington Post | Date: February 12, 1999| Author: John Pomfret | Copyright 1999 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

At a bend in the Tumen River, a stooped North Korean man, with the face of an 80-year-old and the body of a sickly boy, stumbled down an icy road on the Chinese side of the border here. In broad daylight, he risked capture, deportation by China's border police and beatings.

"I don't care anymore," said Kim Guang Il, 20, a cement factory worker who had walked 60 snowy miles over seven days from the North Korean port of Chongjin, wearing a flax sack for a scarf, rags for socks and gloves...

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