Posted on 04/29/2016 7:45:30 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korean food supply hit by drought, UN warns, as Kim Jong Un spends on missiles
Huileng Tan | @huileng_tan
Thursday, 28 Apr 2016 | 12:30 AM ET
North Korea's already-low food supply is set to deteriorate this year as dry weather hits crop yields, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned.
"Given the tight food supplies in 2015/16, the country's food security situation is expected to deteriorate from the previous year when most households were already estimated to have poor or borderline food consumption levels," the agency said in a report on Wednesday.
North Korea's total food production fell 9 percent on-year to 5.4 million tons in 2015, with the harvest of rice — a food staple — dropping 26 percent due to poor rains and a lack of irrigation, the FAO said.
It was the country's first decline in total food production since 2010, the agency added.
The FAO's country monitor, Cristina Coslet, said in a video that the agency was concerned about the expected drop in food production this year, particularly as public rations for 18 million people, or more than two-thirds of the population, had already "decreased considerably" since July 2015.
In recent years, most households in North Korea have poor or borderline food consumption rates, she added. In 2015 there were reports of North Koreans, particularly soldiers, crossing the border into China in search of food.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
P!
Yeah, right? If Fat Boy isn’t careful the peasants might start in on him. God Almighty there’s plenty of meat on his fat ass.
Don’t worry Obama will soon announce he’s made a deal with NK and they’ll get everything they need
Dog is a very fine meal...
So is a “lone pig” in Pyongyang.
What does it say about the morality of the UN that one needs to be “warned” about such a turn in events?
It say that the UN is way behind the curve!
North Korea Tells Citizens to Prepare Themselves for Famine
March 29, 2016
I’m sure Kim Fat Un has plenty supplies of Ho-Ho’s and Twinkies though.
Given they sell him as a god, surely he can just demand it rain. And just by virtue of him walking thru a corn field, crops should just magically grow.
Really?
How can they tell?
Fat Boy will die of a combination of morbid obesity and unfiltered cigarettes.
Good news for NK, they’re just about at the end of the third and fourth generation of those who hate God. Perhaps His mercy will be poured on them in the days ahead.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.