North Korea could be facing another Famine.

North Korea could be facing another Famine.

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In almost 10 hours of interviews during clandestine meetings with The Sunday Telegraph just inside China, four North Koreans who recently risked their lives to flee across the tightly-guarded border from their homeland described the desperate plight of those left behind.

Kim Yeong, 68, told how families were being forced to scour the countryside for wild plants to boil up for food in a desperate attempt to stave off starvation.

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I just read this one.
Sometimes i wonder how much can a nation take.
Another famine? aren't we too advanced for that? Come on!
It is sad that nobody is talking about this, no polititans, no human rights groups, NOTHING.

It seems the NK people is doomed. Just starving in hell waiting for another war, while in China,just next door they are doing great.

Long live Communism guys.

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Originally posted by metodex


I just read this one.
Sometimes i wonder how much can a nation take.
Another famine? aren't we too advanced for that? Come on!
It is sad that nobody is talking about this, no polititians, no human rights groups,no nation leaders NOTHING.

It seems the NK people is doomed. Just starving in hell waiting for another war, while in China,just next door they are doing great.

Long live Communism guys.

www.telegraph.co.u k
(visit the link for the full news article)

Originally posted by metodex


I just read this one.
Sometimes i wonder how much can a nation take.
Another famine? aren't we too advanced for that? Come on!
It is sad that nobody is talking about this, no polititans, no human rights groups, NOTHING.

Well, its not the International communities' fault. North Korea continually refuses help, and they really aren't too advanced for it. Much of NK is stuck in 1940. Plus, the US/European media keep NK ostracized. The West feels no pity for them. As terrible as that is...

It seems the NK people is doomed. Just starving in hell waiting for another war, while in China,just next door they are doing great.

Long live Communism guys.

Blame the leadership. They are greedy and stubborn. They don't care about the people and they don't want to comprimise. When 80% of your country is mountains and highlands, its not exactly easy to keep you country feed without International help. The sad thing is that no matter how many millions die, the people are so mind-controlled they will never revolt.

Seems kind of strange that they talk about a guy selling food who starves to death. He should have eaten one of his rice cakes. I don't really trust the credibility of the Telegraph.

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I think another factor is many of them may just be to terrified to revolt. NK has a history of putting a fist down on its people regularly. Fear is just as much a tool as mind control.

As much as I do not like NK, I don't think its people deserve to just starve to death. That's a horrible way to go.

Too be honest (and I'm sorry to say) I wish there was a way we could safely drop care packages into NK in a way that it would be the people that get it not the regime. Unfortunately I think this is pretty well impossible.

As much as I think NK is a horrible example of a nation I can't help but feel for the NK people who always seem to get the short end of the stick.

A lot of countries have stopped their food contribuytions to the UN program that handed that food out to N. Korea. It comes on the heels of N. Korea going after several NGO's, including the UN presence.

N. Korea ignored the rules for food aid, which is the food is handed directly to the people.

N. Korea not only wanted the food delviered to them to hand out, they did not want any NGO oversight to the program - go figure.

The west can ignore N. Korea all we want, since we are soviereign nations, just as the North ignores everything the West wants.

Besides, the North has China to bail them out.

lookslike north korea cant even feed its citizens

If there was ever a good time for the South to reunite the peninsula, this is it.

Originally posted by DaMod
reply to post by isthisreallife

 

I think another factor is many of them may just be to terrified to revolt. NK has a history of putting a fist down on its people regularly. Fear is just as much a tool as mind control.

As much as I do not like NK, I don't think its people deserve to just starve to death. That's a horrible way to go.

Too be honest (and I'm sorry to say) I wish there was a way we could safely drop care packages into NK in a way that it would be the people that get it not the regime. Unfortunately I think this is pretty well impossible.

As much as I think NK is a horrible example of a nation I can't help but feel for the NK people who always seem to get the short end of the stick.

I would never wish that death on any man. It is a horrible way to go. As for the idea that fear is better a tool than mind control, I would agree. Not to mention it is much easier. Why condition an entire population all their lives when you can just kill a couple hundred of them and the rest will go quiet.

The US sends...I believe 4 million tons of aid every year to the country, but most of it is given to the soldiers or the ruling elite. This is a cycle that will never end if the leadership does not change.

I just cant wait for that old dictator to die so something can be done while they're preparing the next young dictator.
Invasion is what i have in mind- get in and then declare the Unification of Korea.

The people will do nothing against the Kims since they are so brainwashed. Let them taste freedom, travel the world,study what they want,work what they want to work, and then have a big arse dinner.That would be the best remedy for those brainwashed folk.

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They got out of their prior famine?

By all reasonable measure, the US has more starving people than NK...

36.3M starving in the US vs. 3.5M in NK hmmm....

And yet some of you think THEY are the assholes for not taking care?

Where is your compassion now? Just because your fridge is full doesn't mean the US is better than anybody.

Sick of this us vs. them attitude & the idiots who fall for divisive propaganda:

WE ARE ONE PLANET

i have no sympathy for north korea.

nukes are more important that food thats what you get when you live under a communist dictatorship.

if north korea ever went to war it wouldnt last long the logisitics would be their downfall.

under mao over 70 million died and russian communism the grain bins were full and they sold their grain to other people..

isnt communism grand,.

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"all reasonable measures" huh ... like our obesity epidemic?

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/e5d021903d2c.jpg[/atsimg]

Sorry, but you dont see many pictures like this outside of the DPKR.

My heart breaks when I read these stories. Not because people are starving, but because people allow themselves to starve. If you allow your government to take your food you deserve what you get. Plain and simple. The people in NK need to rise up against this themselves and create change.

Some people call for invasion and unification of north and south. Why? What has NK done to us that we should invade? It would be no better than what we have in Iraq. We would simply trade one petty ruler for another petty ruler, and we would still have to feed these people forever. Real change must take place in NK and it must be the people that change.

Better days,

In an ideal world the UN would step in and intervene on humanitarian grounds. But it is not an ideal world. China would veto it and i think probabaly Russia too. Why? Cause China would be concerned as North Korea is their backyard and outside intervention so close to its boarders would be a no no. Also China does not want a united Korea as that would be economic competition for them. Russia because they are looking to their own problems in their own country and dont want to get entagled in Asian political problems.

reply to post by Wirral Bagpuss


Russia is going to be involved regardless since they have a border with N. Korea. China, if we beleive wikileaks, would have no issues with a Korean penninsula united under Soul, provided American military units stay below the current DMZ Paralell.

I think China would actually welcome a non existnat North Korea. North Korea is nothing but a sponge when it comes to China and its aid to them.

Eventually a parent needs to kick the kid out of the house.