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Alias
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 Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:51 am Post subject: New food crisis imminent for North Korea |
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The United Nations says a combination of rising food prices and scarce international aid threatens to cause another serious food shortage in North Korea.
According to the UN World Food Program, international aid agencies in North Korea are running short of food and as a result people are being forced to eat acorns and grass.
Gerald Bourke of the WFP called the shortages "acute."
"We don't have enough food. We seek and continue to seek to impress upon donors the dire needs of millions of very many women, children and elderly people in North Korea," he said.
About one in three North Koreans are chronically malnourished and the increasing price of food staples, according to the UN, is skyrocketing.
"The price of rice, over the past 12 months, has gone up three-fold," said Bourke, "the price of corn has gone up four-fold. So food in the markets is beyond the reach of very many people."
The Stalinist country has relied on foreign aid since mid-1990s when its farm system collapsed following decades of mismanagement and the loss of Soviet subsidies. |
North Korean Food Crisis
Of course this is all just imperialist propaganda.  |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:29 am Post subject: Re: New food crisis imminent for North Korea |
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...The price of rice, over the past 12 months, has gone up three-fold," said Bourke, "the price of corn has gone up four-fold. So food in the markets is beyond the reach of very many people."
[b]The Stalinist country... |
Some communist country: market forces making people starve. Neither Stalin nor Marx would claim responsibility for such a socio-political economy. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:58 am Post subject: |
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| If true, this could explain why the Norks agreed to return to the 6 party talks at this time. |
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Alias
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:24 am Post subject: |
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| If true, this could explain why the Norks agreed to return to the 6 party talks at this time. |
Yes it does. I wonder what they plan on getting out of it? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:30 am Post subject: |
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I wonder what they plan on getting out of it?
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My guess is they want to re-create the golden days of the Cold War when they had both China and the Soviet Union competing to give them stuff--how that ever fit the philosophy of self-reliance, I'll never understand--but this time with the US playing the role of the SU. |
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Naruto
Joined: 07 Jul 2005
Location: Irvine, CA
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:40 am Post subject: |
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Yeah someday they'll make a machine able to convert plutonium into rice...then the N. Koreans shall rule the world!!! (along with Chinese)
But yeah. S. Korea is already sending them 500,000 tons of rice aren't they? Damn moochers. We send them food, they wanna nuke the world. Good exchange! |
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Derrek
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Naruto wrote: |
Yeah someday they'll make a machine able to convert plutonium into rice...then the N. Koreans shall rule the world!!! (along with Chinese)
But yeah. S. Korea is already sending them 500,000 tons of rice aren't they? Damn moochers. We send them food, they wanna nuke the world. Good exchange! |
As someone else posted on here, the South Koreans have a dual agenda. Young children are now taught in schools that the two Koreas much join together to form a unified Korea, if they ever want to have a chance of becoming a superpower. Koreans are jingoistically proud, and buy into this hook, line, and sinker. The problem is that they think North Korea will just join up with whatever future they plan, regardless of their now very, very different communist culture.
The USA should most definately get out of here -- and fast. The US will be made into the enemy while 30 million Koreans mastrubate to nationalistic pride for about a year or two after reunification. Then, after the honeymoon is over, gifts of aid are given, and the South Korean "haves" start to become their normal greedy Korean selves, this peninsula will again erupt in chaos.
The original war began because the Northeners were sick of exploitation from the South, and saw the Communist way as a way to strengthen the country for everyone. We know Communisim to be a great failure, but the underlying cultural issues that started the war are, like a dormant virus, ready to revive and grow again. Just look at the Chaebols and certain South Koreans, desperate to manuver for "rights" to this or that in North Korea under the guise of offering aid. Many a South Korean company see the reunification as a dream way to increase market share and customer base. Rich people who already own 85%+ of the land here are salivating at the chance to buy land up there, and make a profit.
Many North Koreans will become millionaires overnight (the remainder of KJI's gov't) but the poor won't be appeased by food aid for long. Many will look around, become jealous of everything everyone else "has", and there will be a lot of problems to overcome.
The US is best off having a big, friendly ceremony right now praising South Korea's strength, and blowing sunshine up their ass in 10,000 ways, but bowing the hell out of here in the name of peace and reunification. Make that the reason why we want to leave, and perhaps we won't be demonized by this culture, who will seek to blame the US for the entire SK/NK war.
All you have to do is look around and see the many ways in which foreigners are blamed for Korea's ills, and then you can see the future of the USA in Korea. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| The original war began because the Northeners were sick of exploitation from the South, |
Could you explain this? |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| The original war began because the Northeners were sick of exploitation from the South, |
Could you explain this? |
I only read a few synopses of Korean history before arriving, but apparently the North has always gotten the short end of the stick, economically and socially, from most of the Korean dynasties. They have always been the poorest part of Korea and often were governed from afar by southern capitals. It may not have been "expoitation", just having fewer natural resources could explain it, but whatever the reason the North was poor and resented the South because of it. Hence communism. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:36 am Post subject: |
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Conversely, I would say Soviet occupation in 1945, hence communism. |
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thekingofdisco
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:59 am Post subject: |
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| ust having fewer natural resources could explain it |
South Korea has zero natural resources; whereas the North has quite a bit. So i guess this point wouldn't explain it. |
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