Starving Koreans Eating Grass

Scotsman.com ^ | 29 Mar 2004

[Tailgunner Joe]

Starving North Koreans are foraging for wild grasses to augment scant spring food supplies, a World Food Programme official said today.

Gerald Bourke, a spokesman for the UN agency in Beijing, said there was insufficient food coming in for WFP to feed hungry North Koreans.

But he said the situation was a bit less dire than in February, when cereals were cut off from all but 85,000 of the four million women, children and elderly people who are the WFP’s “core beneficiaries.”

“It’s the middle of what we call the lean season between harvests,” Bourke said.

He described a period when domestic stockpiles are running low, and the winter thaw has made wild mountain grasses available as a “coping mechanism” for hungry families in the nation’s southern regions.

“There’s relatively little food going in – insufficient food,” Bourke said. “We’ve got a couple shipments coming within the next week or so. We’re still not able to feed all the people on our books, and it’s looking particularly grim for the second half of the year.”

North Korea’s isolated, Stalinist regime has relied on foreign aid to feed its people since revealing in the mid-1990s that its state-run farming industry had collapsed following decades of mismanagement and the loss of Soviet subsidies.

The country’s government has few allies and is in the midst of a dispute with the United States over its nuclear programme, which Washington demands be dismantled.

[Crazieman]

But as long as everyone is "Equal" its okay!

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[A CA Guy]

If they are starving, how is it their "Fearless Leader" so fat?

[A CA Guy]

Because "Fearless Leader" tells their people that they eat more than the whole rest of the world... Not joking!

[VOA]

Starving Koreans Eating Grass

Nice to see the news finally got through to Scotsman.com after
a few years (or more)...

[xJones]

In one of the 2 remaining socialist paradises, this is shocking! Barbra Streisand needs to go there and organize a relief concert.

[biblewonk]

We'll do anything but outsource work to them.

[Polonius]

That's the UN approach for you -- rather than condemning and working to end the Stalinist regime in North Korea, they let it limp along and prolong the country's agony with food aid that leaves only some of the North Korean people starving.

[Crazieman]

Where'd you hear that?

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Empirical proof that socialism/communism works. </Sarcasm>


End terrorism, kill terrorists.

[Clintonfatigued]

Please, don't give those greedy C.E.O.'s any more ideas. ; )

[Guillermo]

Yeah, but they get Free Health Care and Education.

[NeonKnight]

...While Fearless Leader throws a tempertantrum when his steak isn't cooked right.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Kim Jong says, "Let them eat Nukes!"

[Reactionary]

An average American can buy a better meal at Sizzler, for less money, than is available to nearly anyone in a communist state.

Of course, this has nothing to do with what the pig Stalinist Left means when they talk about compassion and "progress."

[Guillermo]

The propagandists in NK tell their people that they are the best fed, healthiest and richest nation on earth.

I have heard this from several sources.

[lt.america]

About a year ago when sentiment started swinging in the South due to a young girl being killed by a military vehicle( she was standing in the middle of the road on a blind curve) the college students and residents started protesting none stop for US withdrawal. Amid all of this, a very respected professor from one of their Universities retired and upon leaving wrote a letter to the students. The letter basically amounted to be careful what you ask for because if the US leaves and the North has their way, your children may be eating bark. Needless to say, it caused great reflection among many, but the North has so many operatives in the South, mainly in the Universities, that they will run the country if we ever leave or become disinterested.

[Servant of the 9]

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