Hunger crisis grips North Korea as food runs short

Reuters
October 7, 2011

In a pediatric hospital in North Korea’s most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy.

“Their mothers have to bring them here on bicycles,” said duty doctor Jang Kum Son in the Yellow Sea port city of Haeju. “We used to have an ambulance but it’s completely broken down. One mother traveled 72 kilometers (45 miles). By the time they get here, it’s often too late.”

It’s also getting late for North Korea to get the massive amount of food aid it claims to need before the harsh winter sets in. The country’s dysfunctional food-distribution system, rising global commodities prices and sanctions imposed over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs had contributed to what appears to be a hunger crisis in the North, even before devastating summer floods and typhoons compounded the emergency.

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9 Responses to “Hunger crisis grips North Korea as food runs short”

  1. the north korean military is gonna get the ok to just start a korean bbq with all those skinny chicken legged peasants they could make alot of money eating their own, hell its written all over the little pygmy’s face hes a cannibal a pervert a pedophile a sodomizer look at his sick little asian azz what a monster can u imagine he would last about ten seconds with me in the octagon i could literally pull his head off his stump ass five foot korean body, and feed the rest of him to his starving mass of ignorant population

  2. the entire worlds population can live like hong kong residents, at that density, and it would onlytake a space the size of texas to cover us. if they wanted the entire worlds population to live like suburbs in los angeles, it would take the entire continent of austrailia to support em. in either case that is a small area and the fact is there is a ton of fly over space not used or occupied and retarded young and stupid paranoid old, still try to bring up over population as an actual fear or an issue, its not, there is a problem however with adequately distributing resources to all the poor etcl but its not the number of people its the fact there is only so much apple pie at any given time and so its a matter of how big the slices are for each person. the more people the less pie for everyone, as far as capacity goes were not even scratching the surface its like saying gold and oil are non renewable resources LOL LOL the renew its just a slow process, so its all a matter of perspective

  3. Stop all aid to north korea let them starve let their brain washed country slowly devour itself and we wont have to worry about them. They choose to live like that starvation and death will open their eyes to their backasswards corrupt government

  4. China been preparing war against us for decades. and we send them our JOBS/MFG company’s. then we buy the cheap ass products from them buy the billions. Hey North Korea We’LL SEND YOU OUR MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX mfg co. THEN WE’LL BOMB YOUR ASS with the cheap slave labor bullets bombs and planes you built for us. why do i think most would be RETURNED TO MFG AS defects maybe because i see it all day long in the auto parts business.. DEFECTIVE RETURNS BUY THE MILLIONS.. never was like that in the 70′s and 80′s.. it’ll boost your economy while, we destroy the hell out of ours even MORE. only job left would be to join the military so we could eat poisoned GMO FOODS after we take 1200 vaccines. WTF!!! WRONG WITH THE USA

  5. Since I was 18 y/o in 1975, I believed and do believe overpopulation is one of the major threats to any country. I listened to the Arron Dykes speacial report on eugenics, and then saw this article and I busted at the seams to speak what I think. Any country that has a population to large as it can’t maintain itself without some surplus in food and other natural resources, and man-made items that have become viewed as necessities by a given population, better adopt ways of atleast limiting it’s population, or a strict socialistic gov. or communism will be the ONLY way to have anykind of stable government. I HATE all forms of socialism, communism, authoritarianism, totalitianism, dictatorships, BUT LETS GET REAL. I am a practicing Christian, but believing in populating and populating until we become unsustainable as a country or world is straight out of what the Popes taught for centuries. “Be fruitful an multiple” didn’t mean overpopulate until the majority starves to death. India and China, and probably North Korea, need to have smaller populations. Many of the poor in our own country NEED TO HAVE FEWER CHILDREN: what a drain on the US tax payer as to have all these people needing public assistance having more children for the working class to support. The revolving door of poverty is alive and well in the USA, and few of the children of the poor will escape it; BUT the majority that don’t escape it will become the BURDEN of anyone who doesn’t get public assistance. I’m tire of supporting people who’ve made irresponsible descisions in life like having more mchildren than they can support. Once the poor out-number everyone else, that’s a sure-fire ticket to having a communist revolution or some other form of oppressive government. What’s you bottom line Info-Wars? What are you really about?

    • Why didn’t I mention the burden on the middle-class when it comes to supporting the irresponsible who have more children than they can support. It was an oversight. I apologize. I did use to be middle class, now I’d describe myself as working class due to what the peopole who really run the country have done to me and people like me.

  6. I wish the US had with held selling ( Selling? We LOaned them the $$$ to BUy IT,, you ever go to the store get a loan to buy YOUR groceries???) them wheat in 73 or 74. WHY would ANYONE sell FOOD to someone who is building War Making Materials in a Cold War Nuclear Arsenal Buildup???

    I wouldnt Feed you if you were preparing to make war against me unless you let me come over destroy all you weapons you sign a Peace TReaty.. BUT,, thats not what we did,, That was VERY Telling,,

  7. It is terrible that they would sooner sink money into military than food, but that seems to be the reality of most countries, including the USA. Lets start 3-4 wars, sell and supply weapons to both sides, kill millions of innocent people, while almost 40 million people on food stamps, good god thats more than the population of Canada.

  8. Let them continue to spend their money on weapons instead of food and agriculture. They claim starvation every year to get money and food from the US, and the banks and politicians are more than happy to supply them so as to continue their arms buildup.

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