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.
What? No Yellow Cake?
I’ll send em a case of White Castles.
Anybody got the address of a peasant in NK?
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.
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.
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.
At least they got to hear the orchestra before they die of starvation.
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.
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.
:-)
LLS
“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.
Huh. Wonder how that works.
It’s amazing that people can be so pacified that they do absolutely nothing to rise up and overthrow this Satanic regime.
The Army gets first call on the food...
Not to worry! We will happily borrow money from China to buy food for North Korea.
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?
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.
Bumper sticker:
“Obesity reduces crime. Fat people are harder to kidnap.”
So that was the plan. Turn all the food into alcohol to burn as fuel, and then watch our enemies starve to death.
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