Posted on 06/27/2012 7:09:27 PM PDT by moonshot925
North Korean soldiers have been dispatched to water crops that are withering in the worst drought to affect the country in more than a century, with the United Nations warning that yields for staples such as wheat, barley and potatoes will inevitably be affected.
The state-run KCNA news agency said temperatures have been as much as eight degrees higher than usual for May and June and, combined with historically low levels of precipitation, have left rice paddies dried and cracked. The maize crop stands a mere 15 inches tall in many places in North and South Hwanghae provinces, instead of the 60 inches that it should be by now, farmers said.
Nearly 50,000 acres in western parts of the country - known as the breadbasket of North Korea - have been affected by the drought, which will worsen an already acute food shortage. In September, the United Nations World Food Programme warned that 3.5 million people were at risk of malnutrition and starvation in North Korea, which has a total population of 24 million.
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Lots of animals have died as part of the drought. Talk to Texas. Cattle and horses took huge hits. Plus drought in those areas and others has really nailed hay crops this year.
I don’t think the people of North Korea are interested in communist ideology.
They must be tired of starving in an underdeveloped and extremly militarized police state.
Well then they need to do something about it.
the horses died because horse slaughter and horse export was outlawed.
whats so great about dying?
These were not food horses, folks.
What are they going to do? Start a revolution?
North Korea is the most militarized country in the world with 1.1 million armed personnel and a reserve force of 8.3 million.
It operates an enormous network of military facilities scattered around the country and the third largest chemical weapons stockpile in the world.
Kim Jong-un is insane. He would have no problem with killing thousands or even millions of his own people.
What’s so great about suffering under the brutal fist of a collectivist dictator?
Where there’s life, there’s hope.
They would’ve been if it wasn’t outlawed.
Hope for?
The Leftists always seem to get the short end of the stick of the ‘unexpected.’
Turning North Korea into a free, capitalistic country would be the definitive solution to all of their ongoing problems, and ditto, to all of the other countries of the world. Worldwide conservatism and worldwide capitalism should, always, be the ultimate goal of all conservatives, everywhere in the world.
While right over the border their neighbor is producing more food then they can eat.
Very strange.
"Hardcore communists"? I'm sure some are.
But in general, the "hardcore communists" aren't the ones dying of starvation. They're living the good life as members of the Party.
Poor mothers having to watch as their young children die of starvation and sickness in a commie hellhole, and destitute fathers having to watch as their families, homes, and land all go down the toilet because of their insane corrupt leaders and government, are not "hardcore communists" at that point. They're just human beings being killed painfully by the totalitarian regime they suffer daily under.
That said, I'm all in favor of every communist on earth being sent to meet their Maker, and if it can be done without having to shoot them, that's fine.
There goes that great North Korean beer and vodka.
We’re stupid, and we’re starving.
Do something about it, you evil capitalist pigs.
“A pity, South Korea has no such problem!”
LOL, I guess even rain clouds are scared to cross the DMZ.
“The Soviet Union generally had terrible weather from 1917 to 1991 or so. It really devastated their ability to produce adequate supplies of crops like wheat. After 1991, the weather got better.”
Agree, from what I can tell, there’s never been a crop problem in the past two decades over there.
what’s with the “everybody wear the same thing” idea? guess that’s part of their programming...down do the yellow hair thing. A school, maybe? Odd that this picture was released.
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