North Korea castrating dwarfs, persons with defects to purge population

North Korea is seeking to build a population devoid of any form of defect or disabilities including dwarfism and any form of mental and physical disabilities.

Reports have it that to achieve this, the country is subjecting those affected to chemical weapons tests as well as castrating them.

According to a Mailonline report,

Ji Seong-ho, 32, who escaped after he himself suffered horrific treatment after losing a leg and hand, said the Kim Jong-un's regime felt 'humiliated' by them.

He claims babies with mental and physical disabilities are routinely snatched from hospitals and left to suffer 'indescribable things' until they die.

Two other defectors also told him of a village in a remote mountain region that had been effectively turned into an asylum to house people with dwarfism.  

Mr Ji, who is researching a book on the abuse of North Korea's disabled population, said: 'They were forbidden to leave.

'The men were castrated so they would become extinct. There's no-one left there by now.'

The Daily Telegraph also reports Im Cheon-yong, a former officer in North Korea's special forces, as saying that in order to give it some legal coloration, the regime usually offers to buy disabled children from their parents and threaten those who refuse the offer.

Mr Ji said he lost his left leg above the knee and his left hand at the wrist after being run over by a train while scavenging for coal at the age of 14. He said he was forced to go through two amputations without anaesthetics.

According to him, after he was discharged, he crossed into China to beg for food, but was arrested when he returned.

During his interrogation, he said officers were furious that he had 'hurt the dignity' of former leader Kim Jong-il.

According to the DailyMail,

The claims of North Korea's disabled 'cleansing' comes two weeks after the UN pushed the Security Council to take its leaders to the International Criminal Court for an indictment on crimes against humanity. 

The resolution, drafted by both Japan and the European Union, states that North Korea's human rights abuses are 'without parallel in the contemporary world.' 

However, Pyongyang struck back by describing the United States as a 'a tundra of human rights' following the countrywide protests over the shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer in Ferguson.