North Korea facing worst drought in 100 years

The Telegraph ^ | 27 June 2012 | Staff

[Resettozero]

Hope for?...

Being freed from oppression? Living better quality life? Having hope doesn't depend on having an explainable philosophical reason for hope.

[Resettozero]

Not odd at all for a totalitarian state.

[Rebelbase]

"This is empirical evidence that there is a God and he does not like socialism."

He must not have liked Oklahoma much during the 30's either.

[ZinGirl]

I agree....I meant odd that this particular photo was released. The article opens with "North Korean soldiers have been dispatched to water crops...."

They are a messed up country forever sending out messed up messages. Guess you can only pack so much into a photo.

(btw...the girl in the front is so pretty. I find myself wondering what goes through her mind...like, "why are we handwatering like we did thousands of years ago...has technology not advanced beyond this yet?" but i suppose the reality is years of dictatorship has driven out any such musings.)

[don-o]

This is empirical evidence that there is a God and he does not like socialism.

What's it going to look like in the USA when His "dislike" of abortion is manifest?

[struggle]

>>I don’t think the Chinese would be so willing. Last time the Chinese sent a train load of rice as “a gift to the Korean People”, Chia Pet Sr. kept the rice, the train cars, and the locomotives. Said they were all “part of the gift”.

I remember that. The Japanese will keep sending them rice though.

[InvisibleChurch]

Hope for?

LOL! Even the flowers in Terry Schaivo's hospital room was allowed to have water.

[Resettozero]

Now I understand better what you were saying.

[Jack Hydrazine]

It’s nice to have that feeling of expecting or desiring an improvement in the lives of the North Korean people but as Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying,

“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”

A change in the current situation of the North Korean people either will come from the people themselves or from an external source. That external source could be from other countries using their political, economic, and/or military power or from nature in the form of drought or other calamities.

With this current drought (as well as past droughts) in tandem with nations not sending humanitarian aid to ease their suffering the NorK government can only last so long before it collapses.

If we pray for a quicker collapse of the regime it could influence a longer drought. That’s why I ask if it would be immoral or unethical to pray for rain for them because it would only end up extending the life of the Un’s regime.

[Resettozero]

I meant to say more clearly that there is no limit to hope or the means by which hope may be fulfilled. You’re thinking inside the box regarding ways hope can be satisfied; think bigger.

As for how and what to pray for...it’ll come to you.

Ol’ Ben must have been having a doozy of a day that day. Sure do disagree with him on this quote. Or was it Poor Richard’s opinion instead?

[denydenydeny]

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.

Exactly.

[denydenydeny]

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck.” — Robert A. Heinlein