Posted on 03/05/2019 9:31:13 PM PST by caww
Last year's harvest was just 4.95 million tonnes, the United Nations said in its Needs and Priorities assessment for 2019, down by 500,000 tonnes....It was "the lowest production in more than a decade", the UN's Resident Coordinator in the North Tapan Mishra said in a statement...."This has resulted in a significant food gap."..As a result 10.9 million people in the North needed humanitarian assistance -- 600,000 more than last year -- with a potential for increased malnutrition and illness.
It is equivalent to 43 percent of the population.
The impoverished North has been frequently condemned by the international community for decades of prioritising the military and its nuclear weapons programme over adequately providing for its people -- an imbalance some critics say the UN's aid programme encourages.
North Korea does not have access to the latest agricultural technology or fertilisers and its yields are well below global averages.
It is also a rugged, largely mountainous, country with only around 20 percent of its land area suitable for cultivation.
It was hit by a heatwave in July and August last year, followed by heavy rains and flash floods from Typhoon Soulik
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Soylent Green is people.
The kindest thing we could do at this point is nuke Nork out of existence. Just put the entire rotten country out of its misery.
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But they got missles.
Yeah, I’ve seen the videos. Quite comic.
Kim is missing a great opportunity to help himself as well as his own people.
It’s a real shame.
How sad.
Easy way out:
Agree to Trump’s terms. Make the deal.
Later, you’ll wonder why you ever hesitated.
“It is also a rugged, largely mountainous, country with only around 20 percent of its land area suitable for cultivation.”
Boy - if only they had 40 percent of their land suitable for crops, then half their people wouldn’t be at starvation levels. Stupid topography!
Well Kim doesn’t have the say really...it’s the inner workings under him who call the shots and they never have nor never will care about their people......they’re self preserving interests makes Washington politicians look like child’s games. They will never give up their nuclear ambitions as long as the underlying powers in Kims regime have the power.....even when he kills off the many that he has there are more lined up to take their place. N.Korean leadership are the epitome of selfishness.
I have no way of knowing how complex the leadership there is.
We can say that his generals rule. I’m not convinced how much or how solidly they do.
You could be right. You could also be off base.
We can only do what we can do. If it doesn’t work out we’ll have to go the military route.
I’d rather have Trump where he is, than just about anyone else these days.
I have no confidence at all in our people on Capital Hill. I don’t see any other politicians that I can trust.
Trump will shoot straight with everyone. He may not be the smartest guy in the world, and I’m not convinced anyone how smart they are could end this without massive bloodshed, but nobody will fail to understand where he is coming from.
He may not be right, but his makes his case clearly.
That’s about all I can ask from him.
Kim with nukes is unacceptable, and avoiding this situation in deference to China and Russia is also unacceptable, for that reason.
This is coming to a head.
I wish China and Russia’s leadership would urge Kim to end this, but then we are pretty darned sure they want Kim to be a thorn in our sides.
Right now I’m concerned with the people of South Korea.
I would not like to be in Seoul right now.
I was trying to get to the fact that it has nothing to do with their land - but with their government. Just like ANY country. (Israel - mostly desert, seems to be able to feed their folks.)
I read where they Norks and Trump were going to have a lunch including Fois Gras.
I could see the Norks refusing the lunch saying:
“Fake grass!? Why - in North Korea, we are able to eat REAL grass!!!”
The guy is a murdering megalomaniac. He’s hung dissidents on posts and pulverized them with artillary guns.
Trump tried his best to offer him a way out. Me thinks it will not end well.
For the things he has done as a leader, there would be no statute of limitations. I think he could be taken to task years from now.
Trump did try to entice him, but in the end it may not work.
We are at a historic turning point here one way or the other.
It will be interesting to observe.
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