Posted on 01/23/2018 10:19:46 AM PST by blam
North Korean officials are ransacking homes and raiding farms in order to feed their starving army. Not only has the drought taken its toll on the nation, but this newest harsh seizure of food is causing internal clashes between the civilians and the army.
Soldiers for the communist regime had already been given long periods of leave in order to try to find food and make money to purchase food. However, it hasn’t been enough. Collective farms are suffering due to drought and poor harvests, leading officials to ransack farms and homes in order to find any stored food or money that might benefit the army, Daily NK reports.
While North Korean citizens are used to officials searching for food and asking for bribes, their use of increasingly brutal tactics to feed a starving army has led to reported clashes between troops and citizens. Farms in the country have not been able to meet quotas, and in response, officials are giving them new assignments.
“We are suffering because collective farms in our region did not have a good harvest last year and so we were unable to fulfill the mandatory quota for military provisions. All individuals who weren’t able to meet the demands have been receiving additional assignments since the very beginning of January,” a source in South Hamgyong Province reported to Daily NK. “This year, we have to postpone our farm work due to this ‘extremely urgent’ task of gathering food for the military,” the source said.
In the past, individuals were allowed to take leave from farm work to obtain money for fertilizer or farm equipment. But this year, any money is being used to procure food and other items for military use.
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Communist everywhere starve.
Lester Holt of NBC has been in NK the last few days...Has he reported any of this????
Ah hell...Of course not.....
What an ingenious idea. Raiding homes and farms to feed your army is usually only done in occupied territory, but think how much more they can get by stealing from their own people...
Only going to get worse if they are giving soldiers leave to ‘find food’. You get intestinal worms when you eat uncooked fish or meat. TBH I feel terrible for these people. Their only misfortune was being born inside the wrong border
Demonrats would approve.
Bet Lester is hogging his food from the masses.
I seem to recall years ago threads about U.S. Military training events in our cities. Of course all sorts of conspiracy theories. Although I do recall reading various laws that could be read that during martial law, troops COULD take stuff or use your home. I’m not sure how that musters with our 3rd and 4th amendments. Or the 2nd and rule .308
It also means that the end is near as those last resort measures have limits and aren’t sustainable.
NBC, CNN, and the rest of the commie media would rather say how happy the Nort Korean farmers are to help their brave Army by giving them all their food and bribe money as well and probably how much better the NK government health care is so much better what we have.
RE: NK athletes and the Olympics -
Many Olympic events require athletes to compete in solo competition with no assistance from anyone else. So I’m wondering if having stomach worms in their bodies would disqualify the Norks for accepting third-party assistance in their performances.
“Communist everywhere starve. “
The problem with communism is, eventually, you run out of other people’s food.
I’m convinced the NK invasion of SK would end at the first grocery store.
Hard to see the effects of the drought when the place is covered in snow and ice...
From each according to his abilities, and to each according to his needs.
Also Venezuela are you listening? No need to fight like greedy capitalists, it will all work out. Socialism properly followed never has shortages..../s
What’s different this time. Usually, the NK dictator rattles his sword and the U.S. caves to appease him with food aid. This isn’t happening with Trump. Rocket Man blusters and gets nothing. He threatens nuclear annihilation and gets nothing. Throwing a temper tantrum isn’t working like it did with past U.S. administrations.
Meanwhile the NK army goes hungry. At some point, they either completely collapse due to starvation, or there is a military coup that topples Rocket Man. I’d bet on the later.
The Utopia of the proletariat is just around the corner!
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