August 6, 2020

UN Human Rights Report Tells Stories of Infanticide and Forced Abortion

A recent United Nations Human Rights report tells the stories of over 100 women who shared their experiences of abuse in North Korean detention centers. Many of those stories included the inhumane practices of infanticide and forced abortion.

In these accounts, several women were forced to miscarry, abort, or simply let their children die shortly after birth.

One eyewitness account said that after a woman was forced to give birth prematurely, even she was ignored and killed

“She was taken out of the holding center and given an injection to make her miscarry. I saw her giving birth with my own eyes… I heard crying, but then the baby was placed face down, wrapped in plastic and taken out of the cell by a prison guard… No medical attention was given [to the mother]. She died after a week or so.”

Other accounts include a woman talking about how she was forced to leave a newborn child out in the cold of winter until it presumably died, and another woman being forced to have an abortion because she was pregnant with a child she conceived with a Chinese man.