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Get Ready To Starve -- Foreign Policy
The West was just gearing up to send food to a hungry North Korea. Then came the death of Kim Jong Il.
It is extremely hard to know what North Koreans are really feeling as they mourn the death of Kim Jong Il today. What's clear, though, is that there is plenty to be anxious about. It's not just that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea faces a prolonged period of uncertainty as the Dear Leader's putative political heir, the 27-year-old Kim Jong Un, settles into his new job. There's also the not inconsequential matter of getting enough to eat as North Korea's infamously hard and barren winter approaches.
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My Comment: Even sending food aid to North Korea would be a waste .... the aid would only be re-directed to the military and political cadres who have perpetuated this holocaust since the early 1990s.
2 comments:
I do not understand why we just don't let this finish playing out instead of dragging on for years. While some will die for sure how many are dying year after year that this goes on. To me it is much more cruel to do it this way.
I do not understand why we just don't let this finish playing out instead of dragging on for years. While some will die for sure how many are dying year after year that this goes on. To me it is much more cruel to do it this way.
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