[TigerLikesRooster]

Stories of starvation death come from many channels these days. This is completely due to collapse of market. The magnitude of renewed famine would become obvious in coming months. So far it appears that it won't be the repeat of great famine in 90's. By all accounts, it is on a smaller scale. If I hazard a guess, it might be on the order of thousands or tens of thousands. However, with this latest fiasco, people finally ran out of patience, and seriouly outraged. Enough potential here to credibly destabilize the regime.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[TigerLikesRooster]

Correction: Of them, 2,000 reports even spelled out names of people who died(of starvation) in their city or county.

[GovernmentShrinker]

This is probably the only country in the world which would be significantly improved if it was annexed by China. And that’s what’s likely to happen.

[SevenofNine]

I wonder if OBama thinking about saving these people Probably

[Bahbah]

The extent of the misery is just beyond my imagination.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

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[Graybeard58]

People are starving as I sit here stuffing my face with a rather large pastrami sandwich. If I could somehow give it to them, I would but it would just be confiscated by the regime to feed their immense military machine or go to their communist leaders.

We have a communist president who would love to see the same system here. Communism never works, never.

[Marty62]

Can you believe this BS.

In our country Comrade Kim Jong Il has been giving wise leadership to all the work of the Party, state and army; the problem of ensuring continuity of leadership has thus been brilliantly solved.

In our country now Party work is successful, state work is successful, military operations are successful and socialist construction is successful, under the leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Il. Today in our country all the people have become a great family, single-heartedly united around the Party, and they are loyally supporting the Party’s leadership. In the course of many years of struggle under the Party’s leadership, our people have realized deep in their hearts that our Party is the true representative and stalwart champion of the masses and their great guide. Therefore, they entrust their destiny entirely to the Party. The recent conference of the families of martyrs from all parts of the country, the conference of Korean intellectuals and the Eighth Congress of the League of Socialist Working Youth of Korea and other conferences have clearly demonstrated again our people’s ardent and loyal support for the Party and their unshakable determination to defend and accomplish the socialist cause under the leadership of the Party.

We still have a lot of work to do to accomplish the socialist cause, the revolutionary cause of Juche. We must firmly adhere to our Party’s general line and press ahead with the ideological, technological and cultural revolutions to consolidate and develop people-centred socialism in our country and also realize national reunification, the cherished desire of our nation.

We have struggled for socialism all our lives, and it is inconceivable now to discard the best socialism of ours and restore capitalism, a society where “the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer.” The road of socialism is the road of true freedom and happiness for the people, whereas the road of capitalism is the road of exploitation and oppression, misery and suffering for the people. The defence of socialism means victory, whereas giving up socialism means death. Since we pledged to build socialism when we started fighting for the revolution, we must defend socialism through to the end without the slightest vacillation and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche.

In order to defend the people-centred socialism of our country and brilliantly accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche, the entire Party and all the people must unite firmly behind Comrade Kim Jong Il and loyally support his leadership. Loyal support for Comrade Kim Jong Il’s leadership is the sure guarantee for continuing and accomplishing the socialist cause.

[rcrngroup]

Another poster child example of a country under totalitarian socialist-commie pig dictatorship!

Kind of like what 0bozo the socialist-commie pig usurper wants to do to our country!

[Texas resident]

Hordes of starving people with nothing to lose is not a good thing.

[353FMG]

>>Enough potential here to credibly destabilize the regime.<<

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Starving the Ukraine at the tune of millions didn’t destabilize Stalin’s regime. It only grew stronger.

[calex59]

So, is cannibalism going to play a part in this starvation?

[Wuli]

They, the people of North Korea, deserve our prayers.

Thanks for the post.

[nw_arizona_granny]

“Markets were abolished without addressing the problem of ration system, which is a badly ill-timed decision. Hasty implementation without (proper) preparation led to starvation death of urban workers.” <<<

The leaders should be shot.

My heart aches for all the citizens caught up in this disaster.

[Teacher317]

Sadly, the Chinese Central Communist Party (CCP) is missing a real opportunity to take a step up on the world stage. They can push Kim Jong Il out, install a (-nother?) puppet of their choosing, and look like a new beacon of liberty and hope. They are clearly the primary ascendantpower in the world right now. The positive PR from rescuing several million souls from starvation at the hands of their own leader would go a long way towards helping the Left-leaning global media ignore some of China's other less-than-savory actions.

It's a tragic day when the CCP pays more attention to George Washington's admonitions to stay out of foreign affairs than our own leaders... even more tragic for a few million North Koreans.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Bump.