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'Huge Food Shortage In North Korea'(people in Pyongyang start starving)
Sky News ^ | 03/20/08

Posted on 03/25/2008 2:24:40 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

'Huge Food Shortage In North Korea'

By Sky News

SkyNews - Thursday, March 20 03:18 pmA dire food shortage across North Korea has become so acute it has started to affect the country's elite in the capital, Pyongyang, reports say.

Aid agency Good Friends says food rations for some parts of the city have been cut by up to 60%, while others have seen their supplies cut off completely.

Only citizens who show absolute loyalty to leader Kim Jong Il and his regime are allowed to live in Pyongyang and are considered better off than their fellow countrymen.

But the food situation, which has mostly been felt in rural areas where rations have been suspended since November, has now spread to the city, according to the South Korean aid agency.

"Even ranking officials have run out of their (rationed) food supply, while a ban on (private) trade is strictly maintained," said an unidentified city official quoted by Good Friends.

"It is nothing but a death sentence."

The agency also said farm labourers were staying away from work because they were not getting any food. This was said to be affecting the planting of new crops.

South Korea's Hyundai Economic Research Institute has warned that the rising international cost of grain would impact further on the north's desperate situation.

A famine gripped North Korea during the 1990s, reportedly killing up to two million people. Since then, the country has accepted food aid to feed the population.

But South Korea's new conservative government has signalled it would stop providing unconditional aid to the north.

However, the US government this week sent an humanitarian expert to Seoul to discuss North Korea's food situation.

Last month, the UN's World Food Programme reported that close to a quarter of North Korea's 23 million people are affected by a lack of food.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foodshortage; grainprice; korea; nkorea; northkorea; pyongyang
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To: LibLieSlayer

What? No Yellow Cake?


21 posted on 03/25/2008 5:06:09 AM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38

I’ll send em a case of White Castles.
Anybody got the address of a peasant in NK?


22 posted on 03/25/2008 5:08:33 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Jet Jaguar

Hillary and Obama and McCain - this is what government of the government by the government and for the government looks like. Do not bring it here.

Also, the grain that would have been eaten is being burned in our vehicles by government edict.


23 posted on 03/25/2008 5:11:53 AM PDT by RoadTest ( None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies - Isaiah)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Hillary and Obama and McCain - this is what government of the government by the government and for the government looks like. Do not bring it here.

Also, the grain that would have been eaten is being burned in our vehicles by government edict.


24 posted on 03/25/2008 5:11:53 AM PDT by RoadTest ( None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies - Isaiah)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Thanks for the post.

It was the horrible food shortages which originally started the fall of the Soviet Empire. We need to send satellite transmissions over there showing Americans stuffing their faces at those great Tennessee buffets or people looking at which steaks to choose from the tray at a Ruth Chris Steak House.

25 posted on 03/25/2008 5:12:05 AM PDT by moonman
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To: TigerLikesRooster

26 posted on 03/25/2008 5:13:13 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Women swooned in Mao's presence too.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

At least they got to hear the orchestra before they die of starvation.


27 posted on 03/25/2008 5:13:54 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This is a necessary part of Kim maintaining power. If people are busy staying alive, they don’t have the time or energy to revolt.


28 posted on 03/25/2008 5:31:50 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

China is the only reason North Korea still exists. They want a weak/easily controlled buffer-state on their border. They don’t care how brutal the regime.


29 posted on 03/25/2008 5:37:24 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: xp38

:-)

LLS


30 posted on 03/25/2008 6:17:17 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Could I ever vote for mcstain? osamabama hussein may convince me yet!)
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To: moonman

“We need to send satellite transmissions over there showing Americans stuffing their faces at those great Tennessee buffets or people looking at which steaks to choose from the tray at a Ruth Chris Steak House.”

Well I’ll be, it sounds like fat people will be useful for the first time in a long time.


31 posted on 03/25/2008 6:27:00 AM PDT by Niuhuru (Don't burn a bra, burn a feminist!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Charles Henrickson
The agency also said farm labourers were staying away from work because they were not getting any food. This was said to be affecting the planting of new crops.

Huh. Wonder how that works.

32 posted on 03/25/2008 7:00:18 AM PDT by martin_fierro (The Big BiBimBopper)
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To: Ezekiel; TigerLikesRooster; Lijahsbubbe; Jeremiah Jr
As ugly as Stalin's Seven Sisters.
33 posted on 03/25/2008 7:24:19 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: TigerLikesRooster

It’s amazing that people can be so pacified that they do absolutely nothing to rise up and overthrow this Satanic regime.


34 posted on 03/25/2008 7:26:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

The Army gets first call on the food...


35 posted on 03/25/2008 7:30:11 AM PDT by Little Ray (McCain: If I have to. I guess...)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Not to worry! We will happily borrow money from China to buy food for North Korea.


36 posted on 03/25/2008 7:43:54 AM PDT by Bob Buchholz
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To: RoadTest
Also, the grain that would have been eaten is being burned in our vehicles by government edict.

We now have the largest corn surplus in the history of North America.

What should we do with our mountains of surplus crops?

I say, burn 'em.

What do you say?

37 posted on 03/25/2008 8:25:33 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Time to have a coupe of Aegis cruisers standing by in Korea and Japan to blast the next missile “test” chia head runs to try to extort more aid.


38 posted on 03/25/2008 8:30:25 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer (File CONGRESS.SYS corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/N)?)
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To: Niuhuru

Bumper sticker:

“Obesity reduces crime. Fat people are harder to kidnap.”


39 posted on 03/25/2008 8:45:45 AM PDT by LucyT (Sixteen years and four election cycles later, Hillary’s still here.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

So that was the plan. Turn all the food into alcohol to burn as fuel, and then watch our enemies starve to death.


40 posted on 03/25/2008 9:36:53 AM PDT by BuffaloJack
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