Posted on 12/19/2017 8:56:24 PM PST by Faith Presses On
-snip-
As these stories show — and as I have seen during my 16 visits to North Korea in the past decade — hunger remains a way of life there. Forty-one percent of North Koreans, about 10.5 million people, are undernourished, and 28 percent of children under 5 years old have stunted growth. When my 4-year-old daughter visited Pyongyang in 2013, she, all of three feet, towered over children twice her age.
The hunger is devastating. And it’s our fault.
Led by the United States, the international community is crippling North Korea’s economy. In August and September, the United Nations Security Council passed resolutions banning exports of coal, iron, lead, seafood and textiles and limiting the import of crude oil and refined petroleum products. The United States, Japan and South Korea have each imposed bilateral sanctions on Pyongyang to further isolate the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
It is not “our” fault, it is the fault of the scumbags running North Korea.
No, it's not. "We" even sent food to them. But no, they keep threatening us, biting the hands that fed them. To hell with them, let them all starve... or simply behave. It's all their own fault.
feed your people instead of shooting off missiles, it’s not rocket science.
You got a frog in your pocket, Kee? ‘Cause the Norks could fry up the legs.
One consequence of President Donald Trump being a type of Cyrus is that he knows how to do a siege!
Sounds like a Korean, from the name.
Well, the don’t want Trump to nuke them, so I guess we will have to starve them. Quit shooting off rockets at your neighbors, they might be a little more hospitable.
But it’s all our fault. Yeah, right.
Five of the women in the top ten are from Korea. They all looked healthy and well fed to me.
What is this I hear of another part of Korea where people are supposedly starving? Might this part of Korea be ruled the way the editors of the NYT wished that the USA were ruled?
I understand that a similar phenomenon is going on in Cuba, Venezuela, and many African nations.
How can this be when there is so much technology available to grow large amounts of crops and at least a few good models of political and social arrangements that would allow this technology to be used successfully so that the average person could thrive?
Certainly it is a total mystery to the Marxists in charge at the NYBTT (New York Behind The Times).
If you’re the New York Times, you shill for Communist despots.
It’s what you do.
It is a sadly consistent story. When we show up with a ship or plane of food, it goes to the corrupt rulers and their armies.
Have economic sanctions ever toppled a regime and have economic sanctions ever accomplished anything except to starve the most vulnerable in a nation?
We tried comic sanctions in Cuba and South Africa and numerous other countries and the result has always been that people starved and the leaders were not impacted.
Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. Classic victim blaming by the left.
Little Kimmy and the other ruling elite in NK are to blame. 100%.
If only we would encourage NK to nuke the nations that get on it’s nerves then NK citizens would not go hungry!
It’s funny, but existing in a state of war, under an armistice, for 65 years with a superpower has bad effects on a country.
The Korean war was never ended, only halted.
He claims that North Korea is accustomed to hardship so sanctions will not cause North Korea to abandon is Nuclear Weapons program and he is absolutely correct.
It is also absolutely correct that North Korea's nuclear weapons programs must be shut down by any method necessary.
Since the North Korean regime will never abandon it's weapons programs voluntarily, North Korea must be forced to abandon it's weapons programs by involuntary methods.
As difficult as it is to accept, North Korea must be starved for all of the essential materials reserves needed to fight a war - food, fuel, weapons, ammunition, chemicals and spare parts.
North Korea must be driven into the ground so hard that it is unable to provide effective resistance to any military actions required to take down it's WMD programs so American and allied casualties are minimized and our military operations have the best chance of succeeding.
The less North Korea resists, the fewer North Koreans will be killed as well.
Like it or not, this is the point where we are at.
North Korea has announced it's intention to launch two satellites, both large enough to carry multiple nuclear weapons and EMP devices and we simply cannot allow this to happen under any circumstances.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.