Children 'born without limbs' as mystery disease sweeps North Korea

North Korean children are being born without anuses, toes, or hands, as a mysterious illness dubbed 'ghost disease' spreads near 's nuke testing site, according to a North Korean defector.

Youngran Lee, who lived near the Punggye-ri test site before she escaped in 2015. said in a chilling first-hand testimony that a horrifying disease has swept the region, killing and deforming infant children with doctors powerless to diagnose or treat it.

Mrs Lee said: 'In Kilju County, civilians are suffering from diseases, not knowing why. In hospitals, doctors cannot diagnose it, and the patients are dying slowly with lingering illness.

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