{"id":101204,"date":"2020-01-22T07:31:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/defector-says-north-korean-regime-turned-its-people-into-cannibals"},"modified":"2020-01-22T07:31:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:31:43","slug":"defector-says-north-korean-regime-turned-its-people-into-cannibals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/defector-says-north-korean-regime-turned-its-people-into-cannibals","title":{"rendered":"Defector says North Korean regime turned its people into cannibals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/defector-says-north-korean-regime-turned-its-people-into-cannibals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like millions of movie-mad children around the world, Gim Gyu Min dreamed of being a film star when he grew up. But when he huddled in the darkness of the cinema in the 1980s and \u201990s, he was forced to watch propaganda praising the North Korean regime.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after a harrowing escape from his country in 1999, he is a filmmaker dedicated to making movies that expose the human-rights abuses there. \u201cI want to let the world know that more and more people are dying under the Kim family dictatorship,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>His movies are based on events that he witnessed during the North Korean famine in the late 1990s, when, among other horrors, he watched a woman being arrested for cannibalism after she resorted to eating her own son. Her child\u2019s head had been found in a cauldron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like millions of movie-mad children around the world, Gim Gyu Min dreamed of being a film star when he grew up. But when he huddled in the darkness of the cinema in the 1980s and \u201990s, he was forced to watch propaganda praising the North Korean regime. Now, after a harrowing escape from his country [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}