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International Red Cross warns of food crisis in North Korea
American Thinker ^ | 08/11/2018 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 08/11/2018 5:31:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

As negotiations continue over President Trump’s demand that North Korea junk its nuclear weapons and missile programs, Kim Jong-un’s bargaining position ay be weakening. Reuters reports:

A heat wave in North Korea has led to rice, maize and other crops withering in the fields, “with potentially catastrophic effects”, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Friday.

The world’s largest disaster relief network warned of a risk of a “full-blown food security crisis” in the isolated country, where a famine in the mid-1990s killed up to three million people. It said the worrying situation had been exacerbated by international sanctions imposed due to North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.

I am no fan of the IFRC. Its ole in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians who seek to destroy it has been one-sided. So, it does not surprise me if Sanctions are blamed for potential famine. No mention of the diversion of NK’s very limited resources into expensive weapons programs, of course.

And they blame recent weather for the probem:

In a statement issued in Geneva, the IFRC said there had been no rainfall since early July as temperatures soared to an average 39 Celsius (102 Fahrenheit) across the country, whose official name is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The next rain was expected in mid-August.

Yet, months before the July weather, in early May, Reuters was reporting serious food production problems in North Korea

“Funding shortfalls have meant that rations have had to be reduced and suspended in some cases,” WFP said in a statement coinciding with the start of the May 8-11 visit by WFP executive director David Beasley.

The real source of North Korea’s food shortage should be obvious: socialism.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catholiccharity; famine; foodcrisis; northkorea; papalcharity; popefrancis; redcross; vatican
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1 posted on 08/11/2018 5:31:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Global warming crushes communism......


2 posted on 08/11/2018 5:33:17 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: SeekAndFind

Too bad, so sad, tough toenails!


3 posted on 08/11/2018 5:47:02 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: SeekAndFind

Too bad, so sad, tough toenails!


4 posted on 08/11/2018 5:47:19 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: SeekAndFind
It said the worrying situation had been exacerbated by international sanctions imposed due to North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.

Yes, very worrisome. If the sanctions worked then more of their countries monies could be directed to food instead of military agendas.

5 posted on 08/11/2018 5:47:48 PM PDT by BipolarBob (In other news Satan is opening a Skating Rink in downtown Hell.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Plenty of rotting food that could be shipped from Puerto Rico.


6 posted on 08/11/2018 5:49:08 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: SeekAndFind

Watch out — this could be timed and planted to lead to calls for Trump to soften sanction. “Why do you want children to starve to death?”, &c.


7 posted on 08/11/2018 5:50:25 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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RE: more of their countries monies could be directed to food instead of military agendas.

(Sigh) as if Fat Kim gives a wit if his people starve or not...


8 posted on 08/11/2018 5:53:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

Also, there is a potential of drowning in the arctic sea.


9 posted on 08/11/2018 6:00:28 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s plague #1.


10 posted on 08/11/2018 6:03:19 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: mass55th
Plenty of rotting food that could be shipped from Puerto Rico.

Oh, you're bad! But truthful. And the North Koreans would love it, better than tree bark or dirt.

11 posted on 08/11/2018 6:07:27 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: SeekAndFind

OK, Trump, show them what you’ve got for the NK people.


12 posted on 08/11/2018 6:09:40 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: SeekAndFind

Seems like God just delt a bad card to Kimchee as he is attempting to balk in negotiations.


13 posted on 08/11/2018 6:51:58 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: freeangel

Kim: Let them eat yellowcake.

(Finely crushed uranium ore produced by grinding or crushing it.


14 posted on 08/11/2018 6:56:05 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End noncitizen & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: SeekAndFind
International Red Cross warns of food crisis in North Korea
Oh well, they (the Norks) know what they have to do.

And if they do it they'll be sooo tired of winning they'll wonder why they were so stupid to take so long.

15 posted on 08/11/2018 6:56:34 PM PDT by lewislynn ( Jeff Sessions not a mouse or mr. magoo but a low life back stabbing bastard pretending to be AG)
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Watch out — this could be timed and planted to lead to calls for Trump to soften sanction. “Why do you want children to starve to death?”

President Trump will welcome such criticism, and show the weak kneed how to deal with it in a magnificent manner.

16 posted on 08/11/2018 6:58:16 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Socialism is Utopia. I fail to see the need for even the least bit of concern...


17 posted on 08/11/2018 6:59:19 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: lewislynn
Oh well, they (the Norks) know what they have to do.

Invite Charlie Rangel to hand out turkeys?

18 posted on 08/11/2018 7:12:33 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: SeekAndFind
Maybe Venezuela could send them some food.

19 posted on 08/11/2018 7:32:47 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: jiggyboy

“Why do you want children to starve to death?”

And when that happens, and it will. Trump simply states Rocket Man chose to spend on guns and food for his Military not his people. Fluck you MSM


20 posted on 08/11/2018 7:35:27 PM PDT by DAC21
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