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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While dialog is occurring, North Korea should be getting help with the basic necessities. Where’s the humanity?
MY sentiments, we probably have a few tons of soybeans laying around. We should make an unexpected gift of a few planeloads of soybeans and tell Kim to take steps to get rid of weapons if he would like to see more of this (the carrot).
Well, that’s great.
Next they will point out water is wet and will boil at 212°...
There’s no ‘food crisis’ in North Korea. North Korea’s corrupt imbecile leaders are spending all the food money on atom bombs.
Dont we have a cargo ship just circling outside of China for about a month now loaded with soy beans?
It’s so crazy in that country that even the govt owns your Sh!t and forces you to give it up to fertilize the fields.
Good start.
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