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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNorth Korea's food EXPORTS to China increase by 35% this year.
For over 15 years, North Korea has been one of the worlds largest recipients of food aid. Last week, however, it emerged that the isolationist state may be exporting an increasing amount of food to China.
The South Korean-based NK News website reported that Chinese customs data shows the quantity of North Korean food imported to China has risen by 35% this year.
Nearly a third of North Korean children under the age of five exhibit signs of stunted growth due to malnutrition, the UN said in June 2012. It also determined, however, that the majority of households in [North Korea] have borderline or poor food consumption and that the total food deficit for the year would amount to around 40,000 tons.
North Koreas critics expressed concern at the news of the food exports. The obvious question this raises is whether North Korea has food to spare when aid workers are pleading with other governments to contribute aid for North Koreas hungry, wrote Joshua Stanton on the One Free Korea blog. The best available evidence tells us that it does not.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/why-north-korea-exporting-food-china
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Nothing surprises me anymore about that weird regime.
tridim
(45,358 posts)theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Exactly right.
derby378
(30,252 posts)Perhaps the idea is if there's not as much food to go around, it'll break their spirit and make them fall in line again.
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)It makes them easier to control.