North Korea - 28/03/06

1.  N.Korean Defector Says Disabled Newborns Are Killed

http://civilliberty.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/22/AR2006032200431.html

North Korea has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born, a physician who defected from the communist state said on Wednesday.  Ri Kwang-chol, who fled to the South last year, told a forum of rights activists that the practice of killing newborns was widespread but denied he himself took part in it.

2. NORTH KOREA: North Korea Slams South for Reporter Flap

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=41486

North Korea yesterday insisted that South Korea take responsibility for withdrawing its press corps from covering inter-Korean family reunions at Mount Geumgang on Thursday. Twenty-one reporters of South Korea's press corps left the reunion site on Thursday night, following a clash over a politically-sensitive TV report by SBS about a South Korean fisherman who was reunited with his wife this week after being abducted by the North in the 1960s.  North Korea objected to the term "abduction" being used in the SBS broadcast and put a ban on reporters from the South covering reunion events.