In North Korea, the Supreme Leader and his cronies conspire to starve the children. They do this in other to increase desperation and the children are forced to "volunteer" to work at an early age, lest they incur school lunch debt and get hunted down by the Secret Police Forces. In addition, this is also done because North Korea does not have enough food to give to children and must recycle uneaten prison rats and mush after the prisoners have already died.