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Hunger in North Korea Is Devastating. And It’s Our Fault.
NYT ^ | 12/17/17 | Kee B. Park

Posted on 12/19/2017 8:56:24 PM PST by Faith Presses On

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To: cba123

Agreed. I should have said that I meant more like it was ghost written. They’ve got all those people here undercover, I can’t remember how many thousands, trying to influence our society.


21 posted on 12/19/2017 9:29:54 PM PST by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
When Hugo Chavez was still alive and had a spending money, he was working with Iran and North Korea on starting a Venezuelan nuclear weapons program and bases for ballistic missiles capable oh attacking the US in partnership with Cuba.
22 posted on 12/19/2017 9:31:52 PM PST by rdcbn
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To: Faith Presses On

When did the NYT hire Dennis Rodman? /s


23 posted on 12/19/2017 9:32:27 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Faith Presses On

It takes a special kind of stupid to take one’s child to North Korea.


24 posted on 12/19/2017 9:35:06 PM PST by StolarStorm
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To: Faith Presses On; Enchante; roadcat; who_would_fardels_bear
I'll send the below letter to the NYT, but won't hold my breath until it is published.

To say that hunger in North Korea is our fault is a breathtaking display of intellectual dwarfism. The economy of North Korea is commanded by a bureaucracy dictating the allocation of labor, raw materials, and industrial infrastructure. Feeding its population requires a hand full of senior technocrats to decide resources should go towards exports earning food imports and equipment allowing the country to be agriculturally independent. Instead the people starve before an incomprehensible array of military hardware.

Such a change in direction as noted would be a revelation commanding the full support of surrounding countries and tensions would disappear.

25 posted on 12/19/2017 9:37:08 PM PST by Retain Mike
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To: StolarStorm

Yes, that’s very odd. And it makes no sense unless you’re in really good with the regime, and probably even with China. China would likely have to be your insurance card since the Kims execute people close to them all the time.


26 posted on 12/19/2017 9:37:34 PM PST by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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Yeah, it is all our fault.

If only Boosh hadn’t installed Kim as dictator, North Korea would still be the great democracy and the breadbasket of Asia, as it was all through the previous centuries.


27 posted on 12/19/2017 10:12:14 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Enchante

“It is not “our” fault, it is the fault of the scumbags running North Korea.”

Exactly. North Korea has enough land mass, fertile soil, and shoreline to provide way more than enough food for its people. Further, it’s major trading partner, China, is right next door, and could be helping provide food. Meanwhile, the ‘leader’ of North Korea does not look like he’s missed many dinners.


28 posted on 12/19/2017 10:21:55 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Retain Mike

Well said. It’s clearly the NK leadership’s fault, but it is tragic. Those people are suffering.


29 posted on 12/19/2017 10:23:22 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Faith Presses On

Kee B. Park must be Kim Jung Un’s pen name.


30 posted on 12/19/2017 10:56:48 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Faith Presses On

Reached your limit of free articles from the Slimes? Disable Javascript, reload the page and read on.

The NK people need to learn the power of pitchforks.


31 posted on 12/19/2017 11:19:13 PM PST by Joe Bfstplk (A Texas Deplorable.)
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To: rdcbn

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.

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They must be destroyed in space, if necessary.


32 posted on 12/19/2017 11:23:06 PM PST by Joe Bfstplk (A Texas Deplorable.)
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To: neverevergiveup

Probably a strong correlation between how fat he is and why the peasants are starving. Fatty’s eating all the food!


33 posted on 12/19/2017 11:29:38 PM PST by Newtoidaho (Proud member of Trump's army of online trolls)
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To: cba123
Sounds like a Korean, from the name.

That is affirmative.

He's a neurosurgeon and the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Scholar at the Harvard Medical School. @keepark. He is also the director of the North Korean program at the Korean American Medical Association.

34 posted on 12/19/2017 11:34:56 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: Enchante

The dictators there chose to isolate the country and keep the populace in the dark. The people of the country are the only ones who can save themselves, by overthrowing the leaders.


35 posted on 12/20/2017 12:40:18 AM PST by octex
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

...the Ladies PGA tournament.
Five of the women in the top ten are from Korea. They all looked healthy and well fed to me.
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That’s because they’re South Koreans and most of them live in the US and attended universities here.


36 posted on 12/20/2017 12:47:55 AM PST by octex
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To: cynwoody

And he gets to freely enter and leave North Korea with his family?

How the heck do you get that kind of passport?


37 posted on 12/20/2017 1:07:53 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Faith Presses On

Obviously, it’s not a totalitarian communist dictator’s fault that his people starve. It’s freedom’s fault. “Blame America First” has been the NYT motto for generations.


38 posted on 12/20/2017 2:47:48 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Faith Presses On

Not too interested in the NOrks nutrition. NOt as long as we have kids going to bed hungry every day.
America first.


39 posted on 12/20/2017 3:00:54 AM PST by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: Faith Presses On

Yes, it is our fault that the dictators or North Korea prefer to spend vast amounts of the nations resources nourishing their own power and their nuclear arms ambitions instead of running a government that would not have international sanctions on it. The dictators prefer their power and the nuclear arms to feeding their own people.


40 posted on 12/20/2017 5:36:16 AM PST by Wuli
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