[Pan_Yan]

I have seen other articles about them having a poor harvest as well for a multiple of reasons, one of which is South Korea did not provide them with fertilizer subsidies like they did under the ‘sunshine policy’. I feel horrible for the people there, but I wonder how much sooner this regime could have been toppled if we had not sent them grain and financial assistance for years.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Of all food aid sent to N. Korea, most were hoarded by military and other connected institutions. They keep for their use and the rest is either sold at the market at jacked-up price, or exported overseas to earn hard currency.

The aid ended up fattening treasury of the regime and bankrolling their nuke/missile program. Without such aids, N. Korea would have collapsed more than a decade ago.