[lurk]

Yum, leftovers in Pyongyang.

If it’s that rough for the privileged in town, you can multiply the suffering out in the countryside.

[spokeshave]

Maybe they can cook Lady GaGa’s meat dress.....

[TigerLikesRooster]

Thins are pretty thin in NK these days, despite above-average harvest last year. State took majority of it for military or supposedly big celebration this year. Farms took a beating, and rumors were coming out of NK this spring about famines in breadbasket area (SW N. Korea.) According to pieces of news coming out of NK, some emergency grain aid from China stopped it from getting worse. N. Korea is experiencing drought, but not as severe as their state media claims apparently. Still, it appears that every body’s ration has been cut. There are many others who were cut loose from ration system years ago. They learn to adapt on their own. In Pyongyang, they are just beginning to adapt. They had got their food supply from state. Still there are a wealthy and powerful small minorities who are doing even better, the well-connected inner circle. They make up the haven inside the haven called Pyongyang.