TOKYO Their rations reduced to 5 ounces of rice a day, ruralNorth Koreans stripped grass and weeds from the fields and bark fromthe trees - feeding them to their starving families before the eyesof a stunned American lawmaker.
In a four-day tour of North Korea, Rep. Tony Hall (D-Ohio) hadone of the most revealing looks yet at the starvation in thesecretive communist nation: orphans whose growth was stunted byhunger and diarrhea; children going bald for lack of nutrients; ruralfamilies desperately feeding on bark - from the few trees that hadn'tbeen cut down for fuel.
"I was stunned by what I saw . . . and by how much worseconditions have gotten since I was there …
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