North Korea facing worst food shortage since '90s famine, report says

[C0RI0LANUS]

Source: United Press International

North Korea is undergoing the worst period of food insecurity it has faced since a mass famine devastated the country almost 30 years ago, reports the U.S.-based monitoring website 38 North.

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/01/20/North-Korea-famine-arduous-march-38-north/2161674204663/

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Expect more missile tests, defections to South Korea and China, mothers eating less food to feed their children, and another generation of shorter, thinner North Koreans in the future.

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Get busy, China. He's your boy.

[mpcamb]

6. Bombs and military parades or food for the people...

Seems like an easy choice.

[hunter]

10. It's a world problem.

If or when North Korea collapses it's going to be a humanitarian catastrophe.

What will we do with the refugees? They'll be hungry and clueless and largely unemployable at first.

It's more than a China or South Korea or Russia problem. Just because we're beyond range of most starving boat people doesn't make it any less our problem.

[airplaneman]

12. My understanding 150 million face starvation this winter

And its going to spiral to 1.2 billion by winter 2024.

That is one in seven people

We are up against unprecedented perilous times

-Airplane

[soryang]

13. "your boy"

this remark displays absolutely no knowledge of Asian history or race relations in the US. He isn't a boy, and he's not under China's control.

[EYESORE 9001]

15. I never thought I'd see the day

when I get called out for calling the dicktater of North Korea a boy on DU.

He’s a boy. China’s fucking boy. Nyah!

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

19. No, he is a callous murderer and

China could squash him and his military forces like a bug if they truly wanted to.

Of course doing so would cause destruction in South Korea and Japan, also.

[doc03]

2. Kim gets plenty to eat apparently. nt

[Coventina]

3. Somehow, the upper class never reap the consequences of their actions.

Although, Climate Change just might turn out to be the exception.

We all need air and water, after all.....

[OldBaldy1701E]

22. They are planning to leave this planet.

Either that or they are just thinking: "I will be long gone before any of this would affect me, so LIVE IT UP"

[3auld6phart]

7. Yeah

I ‘m sure that greasy little arsehole has no wrinkles in his belly. Tons of green
for parades and missiles.

[BigmanPigman]

14. He lost a lot of weight

and there were rumors that he got Covid and that is why he is thinner. This was about 1 year ago.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Autocratic leaders pride themselves on this kind of thing.

They hate democracy because people are impatient and not willing to suffer.

In an autocracy the people are made to be patient and put up with horrendous conditions.
Which allows the autocracies to put forth their agendas.

In the case of NK, the people can starve to death to allow the build up of their military.

Autocratic leaders think this is what makes them strong.
They can do anything and no one can stop them.

That is why the US GOP wants an autocratic form of government.

It is a crime against humanity.

[DENVERPOPS]

17. Bravo I_D

I am old and will not live to see these new, so-called Republicans deliver the bottom 99% in U.S. to the same conditions here in the U.S.

We are a mere millimeter away, from the: "Corporate Fascist Tyranny" they want to install........

I can't understand why the 70+ Million Trump humping voters don't or won't even begin to see this.............

WASF

[Irish_Dem]

18. The MAGAs certainly see it.

They just assume the horrendous conditions won't happen to them.
It is all the other groups who will suffer.
Women, POC, LGBT, Dems, etc.

They believe they will be immune from the hardships.

Yes hopefully we will be gone if/when voters finally vote out democracy.
And the GOP autocracy is installed. Like DeSantis is doing in Florida.

[Nana Wolf]

5. Russia

It was reported on CNN with sat photos showing North Korea sending missiles to Russia... I'm guessing that's how Kim is eating.

[igorman]

8. yet the dictator is spending his money on weapons for Russia

Because he has more than plenty to eat himself.

[Turbineguy]

9. Republicans want to steal their poverty. Better watch out there Mister Kim!

[myohmy2]

11. maybe...

...let them eat missiles...?

...nah, just like in every system, the little guy who's just trying to survive gets fucked...

...I guess the severity of the fucking is dictated by the luck-of-the-draw which system you get stuck and fucked in...

...

[SouthernDem4ever]

16. This is true

Even to the point of the time period of that system you are getting fucked in.

[Marcuse]

20. Let the dictator eat yellowcake.

[Dave Bowman]

25. Lol, yes!

Open wide, Kim:

[truthisfreedom]

21. Didn't Putin buy a bunch of hardware from

NK?

[The Bopper]

23. Kinda smug

For a country that has 53 million Americans having to use food banks in a time we’re supposed to be the richest, 1st rate country in the world. Creepy Kim is what the Trumpinistas want us to be. They, as the ruling class have enough and everyone else needs to provide it as human chattel.

[EX500rider]

24. Try looking average caloric intake by country

The US is #2 in the world, N Korea is #166 out of 171 listed:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_energy_intake