North Korea says it does not need food aid(NK is stiffing U.N.)

Washington Times ^ | 08/14/04 | N/A

[TigerLikesRooster]

North Korea says it does not need food aid

Pyongyang, North Korea, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- North Korean officials say their nation does not need humanitarian aid from the United Nations next year or later, the Kyodo news agency reported Saturday.

Pyongyang's message was conveyed by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Friday, with no explanation as to why it no longer needs the U.N. aid.

U.N. aid officials said they are baffled by North Korea's latest move since they believe that nation is suffering from an acute food shortage.

[TigerLikesRooster]

N. Korea no longer want foreigners to roam around inside the country and watch over food distribution, I suspect.

In recent months, N. Korean regime is showing a sign of hunkering down. They are starting to shut down outside contacts. It usually happens when they hit a brick wall.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

North Korea says it does not need food aid

They must have cornered the market on Soylent Green!

[blackdog]

Culling the herd I suppose. The important people don't starve. When the population has a negative output per person, it's only common sense to reduce the population. If you don't, starvation and disease is the result.

Of course increased output per person thru a stronger economy is the real humanitarian answer, but at present, that fix isn't in the NK toolbox.

Let them lunch on Long Dong Missiles.

[I still care]

I wonder if this is lessons learned from Zimbabwe (starve the dissidents) or like the previous post, the regime is starting to destruct. The leader is crazy as a loon, and I keep wondering about that railroad explosion that "just missed" him - wonder if that set him off.

[blackdog]

Crazy as a loon by our terms, but we place an extremely high value on individuals over the state(sans abortion, go figger). For other retro world leaders, the masses are just overheads, to be used as pawns. Those same leaders feel that America is foolish for it's thinking.

Each person in those nations are seen as an expense. Since when do you feed the expense column? It's like raising goats or other livestock. Lot's of potential use, so you let them breed and let them feed off your patures. At some point the number who feed exceeds the passive method of sustaining them and intensive feedings of costly stored feeds needs to be done, or you send half your goats to slaughter if you keep using the same primitive schemes in production. People are no different. We just have the luxury of having social systems which are extremely cognisant of productivity and it's vital role. Capitalism has done more to improve the quality of humanity than one can ever imagine. Sure it's full of Dickens-like tales, but such tales mean nothing to say those unfortunate enough to live in the Congo or Zimbabwe, or the Sudan, or North Korea....or Chad......etc...

[philman_36]

Pyongyang's message was conveyed by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Friday, with no explanation as to why it no longer needs the U.N. aid.
As if the UN didn't know! Can't they read?!
Japan to give North Korea first food aid in four years
The first Japanese food aid to North Korea in nearly four years is set to be delivered to the impoverished Stalinist state later this year after Tokyo gave its green light to the plan on Thursday.
The 125,000 tons of food is to be delivered through the World Food Program while seven million dollars' worth of medical supplies will be handled by the UN Children's Fund UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Japan plans to give NKorea 45 million dollars of food, medical aid: reports
Japan is planning to give North Korea five billion yen (45 million dollars) worth of food and medical aid by the end of the year as part of a promise made in May, reports said Tuesday.
Snip...The government is to contribute about seven million dollars by way of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) this month for medicine, as well as tools and machines for surgery, Kyodo and NHK said.

...I suspect.
No need for speculation.

[U S Army EOD]

Well I would suspect it is low carb Sylent Green.

[Cobra64]

Since when do you feed the expense column?

We've been doing this since the LBJ era.

[GSlob]

"Well I would suspect it is low carb Sylent Green."
The cheapest and most straighforward solution would be cannibalism.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Well I would suspect it is low carb Sylent Green.

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue55/classic.html

[ApplegateRanch]

Let me guess: They're stepping up their chemical weapons 'testing' program?

[vpintheak]

You can say that again and again. Wouldn't it be nice if the media would pick up on it?

[OahuBreeze]

Good comment above on the Japanese-pledged donations -- this will allow the Norks to brush off all allusions to their failed socialist system --i.e. they can come to the table presenting themselves as serious negotiators vice mendicant renegade blackmailing terrorists.

This is also one item off the list NK has to extort off the US, and one less bone the US can throw at the Norks.

Oh well: as irritating at the Norks are, the clock is ticking.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping

[Steel Wolf]

I question the timing of this.

Also, the rational. There doesn't seem to be any reason to do this, other than to seal up North Korea even tighter. The torniquet already seems pretty tight to me, so clamping down harder must mean that something is afoot.

[nuconvert]

"no longer want foreigners to roam around inside the country and watch over food distribution, I suspect."

I think you're right.

That or he's run out of warehouses to store any more.

[Grzegorz 246]

NK doesn't need food aid ? Sure.

Maybe they started eating each other ?

[stocksthatgoup]

watch for the North to attack the South declaring that the famine was caused by the capitalists and they were further provoked by the evil Americans.

[Grzegorz 246]

It's not funny. These people in NK are so strong indoctrinated that they think they live in the best country in the world and those ugly capitalists want to steal their happiness.