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April 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The documents reveal that coal exports from North Korea earned the regime $1.14 billion in 2011, which has been used to finance the projects.
The interior of the Kumsusan Sun Palace, where the embalmed bodies of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il are on display, has undergone extensive remodelling and at least 20 statues of the late leader have been erected in rural parts of the country.
In the Mansudae District of Pyongyang, a complex of 3,000 apartments reserved for the regime’s elite is benefiting from a $140 million makeover. An estimated $50 million is also being spent on a new facilities at the Rungrado Theme Park, which will boast a dolphin show pool, an enlarged amusement park and new swimming pool.
The World Food Programme had to launch an emergency operation in April 2011 to provide enough food for 3.5 million people to survive until the crops were harvested. It was the biggest intervention since the 1990s, when as many as 3.5 million people from a total population of 22 million died from starvation or hunger-related illnesses.
In June of last year, cereal rations were down to 150 grams per person, per day. The government’s rations are less than half of the daily calorific requirements of 68 per cent of the 16 million people receiving food aid.
One in every three children is chronically malnourished or stunted, according to the WFP, while one quarter of all pregnant and breast-feeding women are also malnourished.
In times of hunger, the North Korean government turns a blind eye to markets – “jangmadang” – where peasants are able to sell any surplus they have or food aid they have received, but clamps down again when the situation improves.
This serves to limit the amount of food people have access to and keeps them physically weak and no match for the relatively well-fed military.
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