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North Korea
While we in the west are caught up in our own noise of upcoming elections, a report was issued in Bombay this week by Amnesty International.
Harsh winter conditions, and a lack of foreign donations are only part of the difficulty contributing to the ongoing starvation of North Koreans.

…the United Nations’ World Food Program said it had been forced to cut off food aid to 2.7 million North Korean women and children during the country’s harsh winter because of a lack of foreign donations.
A key issue for the North’s biggest food donors — the United States and South Korea — has been Pyongyang’s restrictions on allowing foreign agencies to monitor who receives food aid.

First hand testimony from refugees in the past two years is heart-stopping. What aid is able to get in is being given to supporters of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

“We were always so hungry and resorted to eating grass in spring,” said one person, identified only as Kim, who served four years in a labor camp on treason charges. Kim spoke of meals being taken away as punishment if detainees were caught speaking to each other. “When someone died, fellow prisoners delayed reporting his death to the authorities so that they could eat his allocated breakfast,” Kim said.

Human rights activists have criticized North Korea for its harsh labor camps, where people are detained after fleeing to China to escape famine and political repression.

When the time comes that the world will be witness to the atrocities committed against North Koreans, I suspect what we learn will be far worse than what we think we know.