North Korea reports serious drought

The Seattle Times ^ | May 28, 2012

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NAMPHO, North Korea — North Korea is reporting a serious drought that could worsen already critical food shortages, but help is unlikely to come from the United States and South Korea following Pyongyang's widely criticized rocket launch.

North Korea has had little rain since April 27, with the country's western coastal areas particularly hard hit, according to a government weather agency in Pyongyang. The dry spell threatened to damage crops, officials said, as the country enters a critical planting season and as food supplies from the last harvest dwindle.

In at least one area of South Phyongan Province where journalists from The Associated Press were allowed to visit, the sun-baked fields appeared parched and cracked, and farmers complained of extreme drought conditions. Deeply tanned men, and women in sun bonnets, worked over cabbages and corn seedlings. Farmers cupped individual seedlings as they poured water from blue buckets onto the parched red soil.

"I've been working at the farm for more than 30 years, but I have never experienced this kind of severe drought," An Song Min, a farmer at the Tokhae Cooperative Farm in the Nampho area, told the AP.

It was not clear whether the conditions around Nampho were representative of a wider region. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said it had not yet visited the affected regions to confirm the extent and severity of the reported drought.

North Korea has suffered chronic food shortages for the past two decades because of economic and agricultural mismanagement as well as natural disasters. A famine in the 1990s killed an estimated hundreds of thousands of people.

The country's past appeals for food aid have been met with some skepticism, however, amid concerns that aid would be diverted to the military and Pyongyang elite without reaching the hungry.

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This is so sad because the elite won't starve, only the poor, average citizens subject to a brutal regime. The goverment cares more about power, nuclear ambitions and rockets, and grandiose displays than they do for their own people. Here are some pictures of children who are starving in North Korea already. As these pictures were taken a time ago, some of these children may be deceased now:

[al baby]

Very Sad

What is the blueberry stains mean on that kids face how or what causes it?

[dfwgator]

I’m sure fat boy won’t miss any meals.

[jiggyboy]

help is unlikely to come from the United States and South Korea following Pyongyang's widely criticized rocket launch

For better or for worse, the U.S. won't idly stand by. They've had many chances to deliver the kill shot to the NK regime in this respect over the years and have never done it.

[bkopto]

These poor children are the fruits of Karl Marx, Joseph Engles, the Fabians, and other know-it-all, “intellectual” do-gooders.

[bkopto]

Lets ship tons of grain to NK, so that their scientists won’t have grumbling stomachs when they build their nuclear weapons.

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This image actually came from a video posted to ABC (Australia) in October 2011. From the article accompanying the video:

One image shows children lying two to a bed. One toddler scratches obsessively at his face, his bedmate lies next to him motionless, a purple goo smeared on his face to treat a fungal infection.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-07/north-korea-starvation/3335420

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True. The sad thing is there are channels on Youtube who upload North Korean propaganda, and the brainwashed socialists post comments like, “North Korea is the best Korea,” or “I wish I lived there,” or “Long live socialism.” They claim that those of us who criticize the regime are brainwashed by American propaganda when the truth is, they are the ones brainwashed. The are mere useful idiots who would be disposed of if the socialists they revere take power. I wish they could be shipped off to North Korea and forced to live as the citizens do, not treated special like the foreigners are.

[tflabo]

Even less food for the prisoners in the gulags—as if they have enough to eat anytime.

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North Korea reports serious drought

The solution is obvious. Just execute more top NK military brass.

[mkjessup]

It is far worse than anyone realizes. The following YouTube video is from a North Korean who escaped from that Hellhole, his name is DavidKoHannah and this is one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen, the inhuman brutality of the Pyongyang regime makes the Nazi camps look almost like vacation resorts, I kid you not:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwakb8JeMww/


WARNING - brace yourself before viewing the above video, it is not for the squeamish.

[MrPiper]

It is far worse than anyone realizes

No it's not, only to those that live in Obama world is it shocking.

Would you feed a rabid dog?

[Joe Boucher]

Hate to say it but we should be using our food stuffs as a weapon against saudi Arabia and Iran. North Korea as well as Syria too.

[mkjessup]

It has nothing to do with "living in 0bama world", the majority of those poor bastards are victims of the Kim family regime, they're not rabid, they are starving to death and being pushed into human cannibalism.

Make no mistake, there are few on FR who despise and rage against the North Korean dictatorship more than I do, so if you're going to snark about rabid dogs, direct your indignation at the right targets, which is the leadership of the regime in Pyongyang, not their victims imprisoned in the concentration-torture camp system.

And may I say, that your compassion is truly touching. /s

[BTCM]

Oh yes, lets play rope a dope again and again with good old uncle stupid. Queen Hillary and king of the world DingleBarry Obummer will come running to aid their fellow travelers victims. Remember, the one you feed today will probably be the one shooting at your sons/daughters tomorrow. Let China feed them as they are their lap dogs. The more they starve, the more they will cross into China!

[MrPiper]

And may I say, that your compassion is truly touching

I have no compassion since the gov forced me at gunpoint to pay for lazy folks life style.

[MrPiper]

And may I say, that your compassion is truly touching

I have no compassion since the gov forced me at gunpoint to pay for lazy folks life style.

[MrPiper]

And may I say, that your compassion is truly touching

I have no compassion since the gov forced me at gunpoint to pay for lazy folks life style.

[goat granny]

since China borders N. Korea, you tread lightly in that area....during the Korean war after the allies crossed the 38th parallel, the chinese poured across that border and we were suddenly at war with China... Our troops were pushed back to the 38th parallel and a so called truce was struck...

[al baby]

Thank you