North Korean Miners’ Families Suffer Cancers, Birth Defects From Uranium Exposure
2019-08-21
Miners and their families living near a uranium mine in North Korea are suffering from a range of illnesses and birth defects blamed on exposure to radiation, with government authorities rotating workers every few years and locking up whistleblowers in mental wards, sources in the country say.
Workers at the Walbisan mine in South Pyongan province’s Tongam village near Sunchun city are forced by mine managers to work without protective gear, a source who regularly travels from South Pyongan to Sinuijju city on business told RFA’s Korean Service.
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“And local residents are forced to eat radioactive food and drink radioactive water,†RFA’s source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
