It Makes a Difference to the Sheep

RUMORS OF CANNIBALISM IN NORTH KOREA (Link via Free North Korea)

"Jang's picture of a dismembered child in a cooking pot says more than any of the numbing statistics," Ms Garapedian wrote.

But it is hard to confirm the practice independently because Hoeroung city is impossible to visit or contact in the secretive country.

"You eat it without knowing it is human flesh.

"You're so hungry you just eat it," Ms Garapedian quoted one orphan as
saying.

Attribution of cannibalism is a common rhetorical practice used when one wishes to depict just how bad things have become in country X. Is this the real deal? Hard to say. The link to the story doesn't seem to work and the 2001 date seems a bit fishy.