Article: NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR TELLS OF STARVATION.(News)

Byline: Associated Press

The highest-ranking North Korean ever to defect arrived Sunday in South Korea, declaring the communist system he helped build has failed and warning that the increasingly poor and hungry country may resort to war.

Hwang Jang Yop, a former confidante of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, flew in from the Philippines, ending a 67-day odyssey to reach South Korea and bringing an information bonanza on the secretive Pyongyang government.

Hwang, 74, said he defected to his homeland's enemy to tell the world that North Korea could start war while its people ``went without clothes and were starving.''

``Once vaunted as ...

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