Posted on 05/28/2012 11:44:04 AM PDT by Pinkbell
NAMPHO, North Korea North Korea is reporting a serious drought that could worsen already critical food shortages, but help is unlikely to come from the United States and South Korea following Pyongyang's widely criticized rocket launch.
North Korea has had little rain since April 27, with the country's western coastal areas particularly hard hit, according to a government weather agency in Pyongyang. The dry spell threatened to damage crops, officials said, as the country enters a critical planting season and as food supplies from the last harvest dwindle.
In at least one area of South Phyongan Province where journalists from The Associated Press were allowed to visit, the sun-baked fields appeared parched and cracked, and farmers complained of extreme drought conditions. Deeply tanned men, and women in sun bonnets, worked over cabbages and corn seedlings. Farmers cupped individual seedlings as they poured water from blue buckets onto the parched red soil.
"I've been working at the farm for more than 30 years, but I have never experienced this kind of severe drought," An Song Min, a farmer at the Tokhae Cooperative Farm in the Nampho area, told the AP.
It was not clear whether the conditions around Nampho were representative of a wider region. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said it had not yet visited the affected regions to confirm the extent and severity of the reported drought.
North Korea has suffered chronic food shortages for the past two decades because of economic and agricultural mismanagement as well as natural disasters. A famine in the 1990s killed an estimated hundreds of thousands of people.
The country's past appeals for food aid have been met with some skepticism, however, amid concerns that aid would be diverted to the military and Pyongyang elite without reaching the hungry.
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Very Sad
What is the blueberry stains mean on that kids face how or what causes it?
I’m sure fat boy won’t miss any meals.
For better or for worse, the U.S. won't idly stand by. They've had many chances to deliver the kill shot to the NK regime in this respect over the years and have never done it.
These poor children are the fruits of Karl Marx, Joseph Engles, the Fabians, and other know-it-all, “intellectual” do-gooders.
Lets ship tons of grain to NK, so that their scientists won’t have grumbling stomachs when they build their nuclear weapons.
This image actually came from a video posted to ABC (Australia) in October 2011. From the article accompanying the video:
One image shows children lying two to a bed. One toddler scratches obsessively at his face, his bedmate lies next to him motionless, a purple goo smeared on his face to treat a fungal infection.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-07/north-korea-starvation/3335420
True. The sad thing is there are channels on Youtube who upload North Korean propaganda, and the brainwashed socialists post comments like, “North Korea is the best Korea,” or “I wish I lived there,” or “Long live socialism.” They claim that those of us who criticize the regime are brainwashed by American propaganda when the truth is, they are the ones brainwashed. The are mere useful idiots who would be disposed of if the socialists they revere take power. I wish they could be shipped off to North Korea and forced to live as the citizens do, not treated special like the foreigners are.
Even less food for the prisoners in the gulags—as if they have enough to eat anytime.
No it's not, only to those that live in Obama world is it shocking.
Would you feed a rabid dog?
Hate to say it but we should be using our food stuffs as a weapon against saudi Arabia and Iran. North Korea as well as Syria too.
Oh yes, lets play rope a dope again and again with good old uncle stupid. Queen Hillary and king of the world DingleBarry Obummer will come running to aid their fellow travelers victims. Remember, the one you feed today will probably be the one shooting at your sons/daughters tomorrow. Let China feed them as they are their lap dogs. The more they starve, the more they will cross into China!
I have no compassion since the gov forced me at gunpoint to pay for lazy folks life style.
I have no compassion since the gov forced me at gunpoint to pay for lazy folks life style.
I have no compassion since the gov forced me at gunpoint to pay for lazy folks life style.
Thank you
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