Posted on 04/03/2008 3:32:29 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
As of late March, food situation in Pyongyang is serious. Pyongyang (city authorities) stopped food ration in all districts for six months starting April. Some officials in Pyongyang say that food ration has never been stopped this long even during the "March of Suffering"(note: massive famine in mid-90's.)
Still Pyongyang residents have some spare cash. They can go out and buy food in Pyong-sung, Sariwon, and Nampo, when their food runs out. They also have some food in stock now. There are few starvation victims so far.
However, their food stock is less than what it used to be, and food price is rapidly rising, which makes Pyongyang residents also worried. It is difficult to travel outside because transportation system is bad. Furthermore, if food runs out in other parts of the country, food shortage in Pyongyang would become acute.
There are plenty of markets where one may purchase donated US supplies of rice and foodstuffs. Paid for by US taxpayers, proceeds to help poor dear leader.
DO you have a NK/Asian ping list?
go to http://www.goodfriends.or.kr/introduce/introduce7.html?sm=v&b_no=5932&page=1 and download a document file in Korean (click a small icon(floppy diskette shape) on the top right.)
When if ever will a military strong man lead the N.K. Army to depose the midget?
Fail to comprehend how they can sit still while folks are going hungry for years.
They can sit by because the military is well fed in comparison. That, and as long as you aren’t stationed where your family lives, you can’t actually see your loved ones starving.
Out of sight, out of mind.
What do you think, Tiger?
An effort to wheedle more food aid out of the West by making the ROK out to be big bad meanies?
Call it the “Gunden rule”.
Whoever has the guns, makes the rules. The DPRK’s “Army First” policy has always been a reflection of the Communist Party’s understanding that attempting to starve people with guns is a bad idea.
Not that it has worked very well. Despite all the previously donated food aid, some portions of the Army were still going hungry. What’s going to happen now that the ROK has turned off the food aid tap is anyone’s guess.
By definition, there is no predicting what an insane person — or regime — is going to do.
That is one angle, making all compassionate and progressive crowds of the world up in arms for being so intransigent.
Probably U.S. liberals and Chinese communists are their target audiences.
I think they will create naval shootouts in the Western Sea or kidnap S. Korean fishing boats operating in disputed part of the sea, and pushing the confrontation to the brink of serious confrontation. It helps to control domestic discontent and keep neighbors in line.
I am interested in how Chinese would react to this.
China does the same thing by whipping up anti-Japenese sentiment when the populace needs some steam release of the political pressure cooker.
My heart just absolutely breaks for those people.
Keep watching.
Could be posturing, but, this is bigger. I think.
“When if ever will a military strong man lead the N.K. Army to depose the midget?”
Although the military could easily get rid of him, they have been brainwashed within an inch of their lives so they would have to somehow deprogram their mental conditioning.
Still some of these clowns have had to go to South Korea and china and maybe even Japan and seen the disparity between these and their own country.
Hell, half the mooselimbs in the world it seems are willing to blow themselves up for their beliefs, is there no one willing to so so in N. Korea?
Don’t you think the ChiComs want to see Kim and his regime just go away, what a huge headache it has to be for them.
Of course, it’s their own fault for intervening on NK’s behalf during the Korean War.
N. Korea is doing neither. China will pay dearly for trying to use N. Korea as its buffer and leverage. N. Korea would not allow China to avoid fallout from N. Korea's antics and eventual demise.
"That's an explosive mixture. It risks a kind of inflation that would trigger panic buying, hoarding and fears of mass political protest. Actually, this is already happening in Asia."
Since all neighbors of N. Korea lack sufficient political will to take N. Korean problem head-on, this kind of adverse external development is the most plausible factor to bring down N. Korean regime.
As I said in many previous threads on N. Korea, N. Korea will go down due to events of nobody's deliberate design.
The real question is, as Western country’s and soon China shuts off food aid, will Kim Jong-ill attack South Korea or take the risk of a armed uprsising from his hungry officers? I guess time will tell in the next couple of years.
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