Everyone is familiar with the saying “don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” Well, perhaps everyone except for Kim Jong Un and the North Korean government. Heck, they don’t even abide by the rule “don’t threaten to nuke the hand that feeds you.”
At the same time that the Hermit Kingdom is threatening the United States, Japan, South Korea, and other nations with nuclear annihilation, they are also asking for roughly half a million tons of food from those nations.
On Monday, the North Korean government wrote an editorial in Rodong Sinmun, the state-controlled national newspaper, warning citizens to brace for famine and economic hardship—as though they haven’t already been suffering for decades.
The delusional leaders inside the reclusive communist state obviously feel it is more important to rattle their sabers at the West and their neighbors by firing ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan and boasting about nuking Manhattan than to be able to feed their own people.
To read excerpts from the Rodong Sinmun and learn more about how many millions were killed in the 1990s North Korean famine, continue on the next page.
Keep in mind, it’s a truce, North Korea is still at war.
A UN experiment in making sure nobody wins the war.
there is a lot of proof that people have starved in North korea, but the government isolates the country from the outside world, so most of the proof is in the form of smuggled photos or people who succeeded in fleeing the country. there are government videos of n.k. troops that are so emaciated they look like marching skeletons or pictures of small children picking kernels of rice out of the mud so they would have something to eat. in the 90s the military was given preferential food rations. Soldiers were allocated a cup of rice a day (by contrast, children in orphanages were only allocated a tablespoon of rice a day) on kim sung uns birthday the troops were given a serving of pork also as part of the celebration. about a third of the troops came down with dysentery because their bodies were so unaccustomed to meat. refugees from the country have reported hundreds of cases of cannibalism. the black market was butchering dead bodies and then trying to sell the meat as “pork”. there are poor people in our country who are suffering and trying to get by. but we have no comparison to what goes on in North korea. maybe if our government takes greater control of our economy we too will get to experience the benefits of socialism.
the government of North Korea complete controls the media and the education system. the people are brainwashed to believe that their leader is making their country safe from the terrors of the rest of the world. there are no dissenting voices so most people believe him.
the north korean people need a way to see the truth of their situstion. that their hardship is a direct result of their government. that socialism has destroyed their country and their leaders are corrupt. I believe the people of North Korea could transform north korea into a great country if they could overthrow their current government. a united korea modeled after south korea would be a country of wonder and beauty. I hope it happens one day.
Um$#%&!@*them.
Well be got that on our plate besides everything else. That maniac is dangerous..and somehow we have to figure out a way to take him down…but not with the administration we have today. Congress is impotent as are all the old geezers there.
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Well if this is true then war is coming.
Probably getting them ready for nuclear war.