The country suffered a famine in the mid-1990s believed to have killed as many as 3 million people.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Four in ten North Koreans are chronically short of food and further cuts to already minimal rations are expected after the worst harvest in a decade, the United Nations said on Friday.
Official rations are down to 300 grammes – under 11 ounces – per person per day, the lowest ever for this time of year, the U.N. said following a food security assessment it carried out at Pyongyang’s request from March 29 to April 12.
It found that 10.1 million people were suffering from severe food insecurity, “meaning they do not have enough food till the next harvest,” U.N. World Food Program spokesman Herve Verhoosel said. more here
Gotta get that soylent yellow plant out of mothballs.
We could send them food stamps.
Oh wait, they aren’t fat enough.
Have always enjoyed (sirc) how the Soros funded Reuters (FairChilds) always has the means to finance and analyze down to this level to point out poverty and death, instead of directing those funds to help some to live.
No need to worry about an internal uprising in NoKo. Weak bodies, starved brains.
I salute Kim Jong Un’s commitment to fighting and winning the war on childhood obesity.
With rations down to 11 ounces, I guess that means Kim Jong Un will be losing weight now.
One soldier. One bullet.
Every North Korean could look like that chubby little runt if he’d play nice with President Trump.
Wow! by coincidence I found a dead cat in the yard today. Wonder what it will fetch on Noko ebay.
Get in my belly!
the socialist/communist diet that worked so well in Venezuela!
Jennie Craig, eat your heart out.
Kinda funny how all socialist countries have “harvest failures,” isn’t it?
Russia
Ukraine
Poland
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Albania
China
Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Nicaragua
Venezuela
Ethiopia
Angola
Mozambique
&c., &c., &c.
Weird.
And yet, the United Nations, the NGOs, the Foundations, the Politicians, the Media, and Academia learn absolutely NOTHING.
izlamo delenda est …
The only ambitious people in communism are at the top of the pyramid scheme – that’s why it’s always a fatally flawed concept, when the props and the crops fail.