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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits orphanage on Children’s day

2014-06-02 2 Dailymotion

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: North Korea's state-run television KRT on Monday (June 2) released still photographs of leader Kim Jong Un visiting an orphanage in Pyongyang on International Children's Day.<br/> <br />The still photographs were taken on June 1st KRT reported, showed a smiling Kim sitting in a classroom interacting with the children and watching them as they ate and rode bikes in the playground in Pyongyang.<br/> <br />More than a quarter of children in North Korea are chronically malnourished, a U.N.-backed nutrition survey published in March, 2013 showed.<br/> <br />Sporadic famines are commonplace in North Korea, which is prone to floods, droughts and harsh winters. A famine in the 1990s killed at least a million people, rights groups say.<br/> <br />The government blames natural disasters for food shortages but observers say economic mismanagement is also responsible.<br/> <br />North Korea has been under U.N. sanctions since its first nuclear test in 2006, banning it from co

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