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North Korea warns citizens to prepare for famine
Time Magazine ^ | 3/29/2016 | Nash Jenkins

Posted on 03/29/2016 10:27:06 AM PDT by Salgak

North Korea instructed the country Monday to brace itself for possible famine and severe economic hardship — but not to despair, because “the road to revolution is long and arduous,” according to an editorial in the state-run newspaper.

The article, published in Rodong Sinmun — the print mouthpiece of the North Korean government — comes less than a month after the U.N. Security Council voted in favor of slapping the Hermit Kingdom with tougher sanctions, after the country teased its potential nuclear and military capabilities earlier this year. The editorial stated that hardships to come might evoke another “arduous march” — the term assigned to the famine that struck the country in the mid-1990s, killing as many as 3 million people, reports the Telegraph, a British newspaper.

“We may have to go on an arduous march, during which we will have to chew the roots of plants once again,” the editorial piece read.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: famine; korea; nk; nkfamine; northkorea; rodongsinmun
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To: Cementjungle

[...people will just have to tighten their belts...]

What belts, all they wear are worn out rags.


41 posted on 03/29/2016 11:08:15 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Salgak

So, they will no longer be allowed to eat grass clippings? (true)


42 posted on 03/29/2016 11:08:28 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: Cecily
How about carpet bombing the country with non-perishable food items?

Unfortunately, they'd probably kill each other trying to get the food. Food drops are usually a bad idea for that reason.

43 posted on 03/29/2016 11:09:29 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Salgak

There’s good news and bad news, comrades.

The good news is that production of rice cookers is up 450%. The bad news is there’s no rice...and no electricity...and no trucks to deliver the rice cookers...and....


44 posted on 03/29/2016 11:13:56 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Salgak

I can hear the SJWs shrieking, “No! Not THAT socialism - the real-world socialism found in history!”

Sanders’ folks want the OTHER kind of socialism - the kind found in fiction and fairy tales.


45 posted on 03/29/2016 11:22:21 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: samtheman

Unlike the Eskimos having many words for snow,
the North Korean word for snow is “dessert.”


46 posted on 03/29/2016 11:23:09 AM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Salgak

They’re under double-secret famine. And if they screw up one more time, they’re out!


47 posted on 03/29/2016 11:24:46 AM PDT by TheGipperWasRight
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To: Cementjungle

“We shall have pizza in our time!”


48 posted on 03/29/2016 11:26:19 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

“All we are saying is give pizza a chance.”


49 posted on 03/29/2016 11:26:45 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Salgak

Socialism consumes EVERYTHING.

In time, that will include you.


50 posted on 03/29/2016 11:31:45 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Salgak

It’s a totally socialist country. Why don’t all of them just go on welfare and collect food stamps? ;-)


51 posted on 03/29/2016 11:32:55 AM PDT by r_barton
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To: Red Badger

“I wonder what the NK man-on-the-street thinks about their Dear Reader?........................”

like the book- 1984

better not reveal your thoughts!

They actually TEST their citizens-

See a “tourist” taking pictures- better report it
see a citizen NOT hang the picture of “dear leader”
better report it-
get caught with: a bible verse, praying to God, not
acknowledging dear leader as God...

Oh wait I am now REPEATING the Democrat Party planks!!


52 posted on 03/29/2016 11:46:01 AM PDT by mj1234
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To: sparklite2

This is not a joke, this is just sad:

What do Haiti and North Korea have in common?

The people both eat dirt.


53 posted on 03/29/2016 11:52:38 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: Salgak

Well, at least electricity is plentiful!


54 posted on 03/29/2016 12:02:21 PM PDT by Gamecock ( Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul...Matthew 10:28)
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To: Salgak

Is it that time of the yea already?


55 posted on 03/29/2016 12:23:06 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Salgak

It won’t be too bad. The first half to die will be eaten by the half that live. The problem sorts itself out.

By the way. Always remind liberals that North Korea is a true social democracy. Every votes and they all vote for dear leader.


56 posted on 03/29/2016 12:37:35 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Salgak

Shall we assume the ugly fat one who runs the place won’t be ‘doing without’?


57 posted on 03/29/2016 12:39:36 PM PDT by GOPJ (last 30days- 147 attacks - 25 countries- 1165 people killed- 3221 injured.TheReligionOfPeace.com)
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To: dhs12345
"...humans can be beaten down to a point where they refuse to fight back and they would rather starve to death than fight...."

This is the template that the elites have for us.

We are the only free people remaining on the planet that can fight and defeat the elites in their attempt to impose a global police state.< p>It's a matter of grinding us down over time - destroying our culture, destroying our spirit.

58 posted on 03/30/2016 7:00:34 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: T-Bone Texan

Absolutely and it represents the worst of all humanity. Because, once they have ground us down, very bad things happen.

It is NEVER the utopia that the Left, Socialists and Communists claim it should be. Why? Because humans can never be trusted with absolute power. Even the best person with the best of intentions can AND WILL be corrupted. Humans are inherently bad. It is in our nature to be bad.


59 posted on 03/30/2016 8:01:11 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: dfwgator

Euell Gibbons, actually his North Korean name is ...

Eur Gib Un.


60 posted on 03/31/2016 9:49:00 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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