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North Korea - Kim Jong-il admits failure in food production
ATS Swiss News Agency via translation ^ | August 12, 2007

Posted on 08/12/2007 2:03:13 AM PDT by HAL9000

via translation -

The North Korea pains to produce its food

The leader North-Korean Kim Jong it admitted that his country still did not manage to produce enough food for its population, brought back Saturday evening the official media. He was expressed at the time of a visit in a factory of manure.

The communist mode North-Korean, with the bloodless economy, rests mainly on the food aid, of Beijing and Seoul initially, to nourish its 23 million inhabitants. UNO evaluates with approximately a fifth of its needs the food deficit for the North Korea for this year.

South Korea took again at the end of June its deliveries of rices to its neighbor of North, frozen since close one year in waiting of the application by Pyongyang of an agreement on its denuclearization. Seoul must deliver 400 ' 000 tons of rice in six months to Pyongyang.

A famine had made hundreds of thousands of died in North Korea in the Nineties, according to humane organizations'. Since, the country remains in prey with a chronic food shortage.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foodshortage; kimjongil; korea; northkorea

1 posted on 08/12/2007 2:03:16 AM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
factory of manure.

They have a Senate, too?

2 posted on 08/12/2007 2:07:05 AM PDT by MARTIAL MONK
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To: HAL9000

must be running out of grass to eat


3 posted on 08/12/2007 2:25:38 AM PDT by Lawdoc (My dad married my aunt, so now my cousins are my brothers. Go figure.)
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To: HAL9000
He was expressed at the time of a visit in a factory of manure.

At least we know root of the problem. North Korea - produce less manure, and more food.

4 posted on 08/12/2007 3:00:58 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Withhold Taxes - Starve a Liberal)
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To: HAL9000

It’s a Communist country, so of course they have a manure shortage as well. It’s the obvious efficiency of the Communist system at work.


5 posted on 08/12/2007 3:27:50 AM PDT by Cheburashka (Come over to the Dark Side. We have cookies.)
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To: HAL9000

It’s so sad that the north korean people have been all but destroyed by the tyrants over them. Have you seen the night time satellite photo of the korean peninsula? All lights right up to the DMZ(clearly defined border), all darkness except a dim glow at the capitol. So SAD what those evil fiends have done to their own people. Even the chinese are ashamed of them.


6 posted on 08/12/2007 3:35:31 AM PDT by timer (n/0=n=nx0)
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To: HAL9000
A famine had made hundreds of thousands of died in North Korea in the Nineties, according to humane organizations'. Since, the country remains in prey with a chronic food shortage.

Kim could trade Pootie enriched uranium for Polonium 210 to feed to his subjects. Problem solved. /sarcasm

7 posted on 08/12/2007 3:40:14 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: PGalt

Oh cmon, Woopie Goldberg says communism will work if you put the right person in charge. I trust her despite communisms decades of failures around the world and a hundred million dead workers.


8 posted on 08/12/2007 4:03:08 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: HAL9000
"The communist mode North-Korean, with the bloodless economy, rests mainly on the food aid, of Beijing and Seoul initially, to nourish its 23 million inhabitants."

I thought there were more people there. Shoot, we have that many illegal immigrants.

9 posted on 08/12/2007 4:20:18 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam

One problem Korea will never face is illegal immigration.


10 posted on 08/12/2007 4:26:42 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: MARTIAL MONK
They have a Senate, too? American Democrats who come to visit them.
11 posted on 08/12/2007 7:45:55 AM PDT by Alien Gunfighter (Secular Misanthropist)
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To: Alien Gunfighter
And some REPUBLICANS, too, (nowadays).

Did not you get the message from TigerLikesRooster and me that "appeasement" knows no partisan bounds?

12 posted on 08/12/2007 12:15:14 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Visit this thread 1-hour from now. In that time-an average of 416.6 more ILLEGALS will be in the USA)
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To: MARTIAL MONK

LOL


13 posted on 08/12/2007 12:17:08 PM PDT by Constantine XIII
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To: HAL9000
What happened to the giant rabbits? Did they forget to let them
mate and litter before eating them?


14 posted on 08/12/2007 12:21:50 PM PDT by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: timer

All to true. Also, take in to account that Korea has arctic winters and tropical summers. It is criminal what Kim Il Jong has done.


15 posted on 08/14/2007 11:57:20 AM PDT by martywake (I'm so ronrey, rearry ronrey.)
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To: martywake

That night time satellite picture of the korean peninsula tells the story, you see the DMZ clearly defined by the lights in south korea all along it. To the north it’s all darkness except a dim glow in the capitol. Those communist dictators have all but completely CRUSHED the north koreans out of existence. Like gaza, they’d starve to death w/o food from the UN.

Ironically my son is marrying a south korean girl next month in NY, and I’m a WASP. Her father emigrated to the US in 1978. So my grand kids will be 1/2 korean...

Interesting korean history : appearently the original japanese culture, beyond the ainu, was from a minor kingdom in korea. The japanese have always looked down on the koreans as low-lifes, and yet here their foundation culture is KOREAN! Talk about losing face....


16 posted on 08/14/2007 1:46:11 PM PDT by timer (n/0=n=nx0)
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To: timer
It’s so sad that the north korean people have been all but destroyed by the tyrants over them.

History is full of examples of revolutions that have started for a lot less suffering than what the NK people have been going through. I wonder why they just sit there and continue to take it?
17 posted on 08/14/2007 1:50:50 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
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To: reagan_fanatic

The dictator is ruthless in ferreting out any possible dissidents which he then tortures and kills, you’ve heard about his death camps I’m sure. It’s even worse than the former east germany with its spies and informants. And yet, remember how that regime fell : the young people just walked into chek-land(another warsaw pact country)then into west germany. So, could it be that the north korean people just WALK out of NK enmass to china or south korea? The NKs may be china’s “lips and teeth” but they are VERY unhappy with NK counterfeiting foreign currencies, esp the yuan.

The NK dictator is milking the nuc issue for all it’s worth but he’s on the financial ropes, all guns and no butter is how the USSR collapsed, he’s next....


18 posted on 08/14/2007 2:37:16 PM PDT by timer (n/0=n=nx0)
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To: HAL9000

Hey Kim, how’s that Juche thing workin’ out for ya?


19 posted on 08/14/2007 2:37:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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