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North Korea soldiers malnourished: report
AFP ^
| 06/27/11
Posted on 06/27/2011 1:47:28 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korea soldiers malnourished: report
(AFP) 5 hours ago
SYDNEY North Korea is struggling to feed its army, according to new footage obtained from within the secretive state which shows a soldier complaining his unit is weak from a lack of nutrition.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said the video was taken by an undercover North Korean journalist over several months earlier this year and smuggled out of the communist country to China.
It shows orphaned children begging for food in the streets and a party official ordering a vendor at a private market to give her a donation of rice for the army -- once quarantined from food shortages.
"Everybody is weak," one young North Korean soldier is filmed saying to the reporter's hidden camera.
"Within my troop of 100 comrades, half of them are malnourished."
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: army; malnutrition; nkorea
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posted on
06/27/2011 1:48:16 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
A starving army is a very disloyal army.
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posted on
06/27/2011 1:57:34 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: Jonty30
And a very desperate one.
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posted on
06/27/2011 2:21:57 AM PDT
by
KDD
(When the government boot is on your neck, it matters not whether it is the right boot or the left.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Good grief! Somebody please put them out of their misery!
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posted on
06/27/2011 3:26:29 AM PDT
by
vanilla swirl
(We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
"Within my troop of 100 comrades, half of them are malnourished." Are the other half of his troop stealing the weakest's rice balls?
When they come begging for food, I hope we shrug and turn away. Let them lick dirt.
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posted on
06/27/2011 3:42:42 AM PDT
by
woofer
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
06/27/2011 3:51:29 AM PDT
by
Puckster
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
06/27/2011 11:31:19 AM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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Thanks TigerLikesRooster.
North Korea is struggling to feed its army
Watching the world wake up from history...
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posted on
06/27/2011 5:50:45 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's the Obamacare, stupid! -- Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: TigerLikesRooster
North Koreans join the army simply as a way to make sure that their family has food... since only the army has any assurance of being fed. This is why North Korea has the world's highest percentage of its populace in its military.
If the soldiers are not getting enough food, then the nation's leadership is not going to last beyond this decade, likely not even 5 more years.
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posted on
06/27/2011 7:11:03 PM PDT
by
Teacher317
(really?)
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