How Kim Jong Il Starved North Korea -- Jordan Weissmann, The Atlantic
What kind of disastrous economic policy results in the death by starvation of up to 3 million people in a nation with the population of Texas?
When North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il died of a coronary this weekend after 17 years in power, the homuncular tyrant left his country much as he found it -- poor and desperately hungry.
For the last two decades, North Korea has grappled with food crisis upon food crisis, the result of a dysfunctional government and its erratic leader. In 1994, the year Kim inherited North Korea's reins from his late father, the country was in the midst of a severe agricultural decline. The newly minted despot transformed it into a famine that would claim as many as three million lives. Food shortages have plagued the country ever since.
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My Comment: The policy that North Korea pursued is exactly the same policy that Stalin pursued in the Ukraine that resulted in the deaths of 6 million. And like Stalin, when he died the population did exactly the same thing that they are doing in North Korea today .... they cried in public, but remain fearful inside their homes. My father grew up in the Ukraine during this time, and to his last days he hated Stalin with a passion .... a passion that I am sure many North Koreans feel towards the Kim Jong-il family today.
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