South Korea delegation meets Kim in Pyongyang before historic talks Read moreFor years that past weighed heavily on him and he struggled after he was smuggled out of the North to South Korea. “They’ll think I’m a traitor.”This year is the first time North Korea will participate in the Winter Paralympics, after its Summer Games debut in London in 2012. “My foot could have been fixed in another country, but in North Korea the medicine was so poor,” he said. North Korean authorities have long discriminated against disabled people, with a UN report saying some are sent to prison camps. “In North Korean society there is hierarchy in everything, even among beggars,” he said.

Source: The Guardian March 06, 2018 03:33 UTC