UN: NKorea Facing Worst Food Crisis Since 1990s

In this photo released by World Food Program Wednesday, July 30, 2008, malnourished children are seen at an orphanage in Chongjin City, North Hamgyong Province, North Korea June 20, 2008. Flooding and poor harvests have caused North Korea's worst food crisis since the late 1990s and have put millions at risk, the United Nations' food body said Wednesday.(AP Photo/World Food Program, HO)

From Yahoo News:

BEIJING - Flooding and poor harvests have caused North Korea's worst food crisis since the late 1990s and have put millions at risk, the United Nations' food agency said Wednesday.

The food shortage threatens widespread malnutrition, the World Food Program said.

"Millions of vulnerable North Koreans are at risk of slipping toward precarious hunger levels," Jean-Pierre de Margerie, the WFP's country director for North Korea, told a news conference.

The WFP had been given permission to launch a new operation to target those most vulnerable in eight of the country's 10 provinces, or 6.4 million people, up from a current 1.2 million.

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More News On North Korea's Famine

U.N.: Millions Hungry in North Korea -- Washington Post
Millions in North Korea facing famine -- Telegraph
North Korea facing major food crisis: UN’s food program -- Taipei Times
North Korea on brink of food crisis, say aid agencies -- Guardian
North Korea food crisis worst in a decade: U.N. -- Reuters
U.N.: Millions at risk in N.K. food crisis -- CNN
Spectre of hunger again haunts North Korea, UN says -- CBC
DPR Korea facing worst food crisis since late 1990s - UN News Center
Stunted children: the legacy of North Korea's hunger -- The Guardian

My Comment: The sad part of this disaster is that by sending emergency foodstuffs to North Korea, everyone knows that much of it will be directed to the military and supporters of the regime .... the same regime that has produced this disaster.

As for the people who are starving ... I am sure that they will receive nothing.