N. Korea orders major organizations to fend for themselves

Daily NK ^ | February 27, 2020 | Mun Dong Hui

[rdl6989]

North Korea has ordered major provincial organizations, military-run factories and other facilities to prepare a months’ worth of food, signalling that the state is unable to provide rations anymore, Daily NK has learned.

“The order was handed down by provincial party committees to local people’s committees, Ministry of State Security offices, police stations, military-run factories run by the Second Economic Committee [of the Workers’ Party of Korea], and even orphanages,” a North Hamgyong Province-based source told Daily NK on Feb. 26.

[rdl6989]

This is what I’m thinking.

[DouglasKC]

Clearly. But watch out! The Meta Concern Trolls will chastise and taunt you for disrupting their complacency.

The flu kills more shut up!

[redgolum]

With Nukes.

[DannyTN]

That was my reaction to.

Coronavirus is hitting.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Reminds me of “City of Ember”.

[calenel]

And the Deep State planted the CoVID-19 bug in China’s major transport hub and destroyed the Chinese economy to unseat Trump! And you’re helping them you commie liberal coward global warming traitors!

[hinckley buzzard]

This sounds like trouble in Nork land. Has this kind of order ever been issued before? Anyone know?

[DouglasKC]

And the Deep State planted the CoVID-19 bug in China’s major transport hub and destroyed the Chinese economy to unseat Trump! And you’re helping them you commie liberal coward global warming traitors!

That's me! We're working on taking out Japan and South Korea too! And Iran for good measure!

[jmacusa]

Well there’s always grass and tree bark.

[calenel]

And Singapore and those vicious Taiwanese dudes!

[rdl6989]

See 13. First time this kind of order has been given.

[Jane Long]

Pretty bad/sad when your country can’t even do rations :(

[House Atreides]

“North Korea has ordered major provincial organizations, military-run factories and other facilities to prepare a months’ worth of food, signalling that the state is unable to provide rations anymore, Daily NK has learned....”
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Hmmm .... does North Korea have a bunch of Kulaks from whom they can commandeer the food?

[VanShuyten]

“... signalling that the state is unable to provide rations anymore, Daily NK has learned.”

This newspaper says that prices are rising as demand is going up. I think this might be a move by the central government to prepare for massive quarantines around the country. They would expect their factories to continue production even if they are isolated, and their local governmental and military units to be able to control the populace without new supplies.

[Karl Spooner]

The government will be doing no knock food raids on its citizens if they don’t get enough.

[null and void]

I almost read that in terms the regime is nearing collapse.

Me too.

[null and void]

Disease happens.
Famine happens.
Regime collapse happens...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[GOPJ]

Sounds like North Korea is lying about the number of Coronavirus cases they have...

[catnipman]

“other facilities to prepare a months’ worth of food”

no problem ... just hoard the one kilo of rice per week per factory that’s given out in normal times ...

[GOPJ]

Sounds like North Korea is lying about the number of Coronavirus cases they have...

http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap