Babies deformed by Kim Jong-un’s nuclear tests: Radiation from underground site is blamed for mutations and turning surrounding area into a wasteland
North Korea uses mountainous Punggye-ri area to carry out nuclear bomb tests
Defectors claim that ‘deformed’ babies have been born in hospitals in the area
Trees reported to have withered and died and wells have dried up, it is claimed
Satellite images show impact nuclear tests have had on area around the test site
By JULIAN ROBINSON
DAILYMAIL.COM
7 November 2017
Tests at North Korea’s underground nuclear site have caused deformities in babies and turned the surrounding area into a wasteland, it has been claimed.
A group of defectors say springs have run dry while 80 per cent of newly planted trees have withered and died at Punggye-ri in the secretive country’s north east.
One, who used to live in Kilju county – where the site is located – claimed that ‘deformed babies’ were being born in hospitals in the area.
It comes as pictures reveal the impact North Korea’s sixth nuclear bomb test, carried out in early September, has had on the mountainous area – including ‘multiple landslides’.
One defector told South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper that locals were concerned about radioactive contamination and that residents were not given prior warning of nuclear tests.
He said: ‘I heard from a relative in Kilju that deformed babies were born in hospitals there.
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