North Korean Defectors: Nuclear Test Site Has Made The Province A Wasteland

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un smiles as he guides the test-firing of a new multiple launch rocket system in this undated photo KCNA via Reuters

The Independent: North Korea nuclear tests are 'leading to deformed babies and turning province into wasteland'

Defectors say 80 per cent of trees die and underground wells have run dry.

North Korea's nuclear test site has been turned into a wasteland where babies are born with defects, defectors have reported.

Defectors from Kilju county, where the Punggye-ri underground nuclear test facility is located, have said 80 per cent of trees that are planted die and underground wells have run dry.

The witness accounts come from a group of 21 defectors who used to live in the region who were interviewed by the Research Association of Vision of North Korea, according to the South Korean Chosun Ilbo newspaper.

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