CHILDREN whose parents are not married are being denied food and vaccines in North Korea, it has emerged.
Under local laws, unmarried mothers are forbidden from registering the birth of their baby which means the child is not entitled to legal protections in the hermit country. Earlier this month, the policy was laid bare when mothers in a South Pyongyang province flocked to hospitals with their infants for shots while the children of unwed mothers were turned away.
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