North Korea soldiers malnourished: report

AFP ^ | 06/27/11

[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."

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[Jonty30]

A starving army is a very disloyal army.

[KDD]

And a very desperate one.

[vanilla swirl]

Good grief! Somebody please put them out of their misery!

[woofer]

"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.

[Puckster]

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[TexasRepublic]

Let them eat Plutonium.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks TigerLikesRooster.

North Korea is struggling to feed its army

Watching the world wake up from history...

[Teacher317]

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.