Posted on 01/02/2018 4:47:09 PM PST by Hadean
Soldiers in North Korea’s army are being given months off at a time to scrounge around fields to find food, according to a new report that describes the dire state of the reclusive country’s food rations.
A photo purportedly showing North Korean soldiers rummaging through a corn field was published recently on Daily NK, a Seoul-based website that covers the North through a network of informants.
"The officers know better than anyone that they must feed their soldiers in order to maintain morale, and that rations of cornmeal with very few calories only serve to instill disillusionment among them,” a source from the northern Ryanggang Province told the website.
Other sources said many residents have been “expressing pity about the situation” and officers in Ryanggang Province have been "giving soldiers 2 to 3 months leave to gather food.”
The website says a poor harvest, a drought and international sanctions have left the government with reduced food rations.
“Even though the price of rice hasn't changed much in the markets, people are especially worried that the effects of international sanctions will continue to mount and soon cause even more problems,” a source told Daily NK.
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Eat him - problem solved.
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Just keep them away from soldiers in the North Korean Army.
> a poor harvest, a drought and international sanctions have left the government with reduced food rations.
And it has nothing to do with communism?
Somehow it must be Trump's fault. Obama kept them well fed.
the first rule of a dictator used to be Keep your Troops FED AND PAID ... so much for that
If this did turn into a conventional war I wonder how many of those troops would surrender to the South Korean forces if given the chance to do so?
If true, maybe we should have a massive tailgate party next to the DMZ and offer a free steak dinner to every North Korean that defects to the South. Suspect at least half NK’s army would surrender to the South within 24 hours. Kind of hard to fight a war when all they guys you expect to fight and die for your side are sitting with the enemy fat and happy.
And now for making Dear Leader look bad, they will be shot.
Or does North Korea really want to be “The Mouse That Roared”?
Even if they just confiscated Little Rocket Man’s nightly TV snacks, it would probably feed the army for a month.
Put a couple hundred meat smokers on the border and wait for the wind to blow north. Announce free food if they surrender.
I have long recommended a barbie every 100 yards on the southern DMZ. Food will completely compromise the Nork military.
If they are eating plain untreated corn out of the field the nutritional value is very low. That’s what causes pellagra. Corn has to be soaked in lime-water (alkaline) to release nutritional elements necessary for human consumption. Tortilla dough and hominy have all been treated with lime-water in the grain before cooking. then it is nutritious. Poor fellows.
For the first time in modern history, our sanctions on someone are actually working as intended. Trump is more than just talk.
Seems like should war ever come, those fighting the Norks wouldn’t need to do very much except set up free food stands and yell “Come and get it!” in Korean ...
“Corn has to be soaked in lime-water (alkaline) to release nutritional elements necessary for human consumption. Tortilla dough and hominy have all been treated with lime-water in the grain before cooking. then it is nutritious.”
Nixtamalization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization
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