Friday, October 7, 2011

Famine Returning To North Korea

A North Korean woman prepares a meal in her house at the Soksa-Ri collective farm in an area damaged by summer floods and typhoons in South Hwanghae province, Sept. 29. Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Hunger Crisis Grips North Korea As Food Runs Short -- MSNBC/Reuters

U.S. and South Korea won't resume aid unless communist regime meets certain conditions.

HAEJU, North Korea — In a pediatric hospital in North Korea's most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy.

"Their mothers have to bring them here on bicycles," said duty doctor Jang Kum Son in the Yellow Sea port city of Haeju. "We used to have an ambulance but it's completely broken down. One mother traveled 72 kilometers (45 miles). By the time they get here, it's often too late."

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My Comment
: And winter has not even started yet .... this is going to be a disaster by January/February next year and there is nothing that we can do about it as long as the regime in Pyongyang stays in power..

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