North Korea at the Verge of Starvation

North Korea at the Verge of Starvation

Sunan, North Korea — Food crisis worsened reaching a critical point for North Korea this year. The agriculture industry has been experiencing worst torrential heavy rains and very cold winters in 60 years that is affecting the country’s produce, limiting the production yearly. There are estimated 6 million North Koreans living under the poverty line. These people are eating less, are hungry and need immediate food assistance. The World Food Program has donated $224 million to North Korea last April.

Officials in North Korea secretly and silently made pleas to the international community for food aid and assistance. North Korea has been greatly affected by volatile and unstable food prices globally, fertilizers shortfalls and colder winters that reduce wheat harvests. North Korea in return promised for strict and compliant monitoring conditions.

Due to alleged human rights suppression and secret nuclear warfare, donations have recently been so minimal for the country. The assistance from the European Union will only be enough to feed a tenth of all hungry North Koreans up to the next harvest in October. The United States has not yet expressed its readiness to extend a helping hand to North Korea.

Speculations were circulating that food has been stockpiled by the Government to be distributed in time for the celebration of the 100^th anniversary of the late and former President Kim Il Sung’s birthday by next year.

However, in the capital Pyongyang, food is plenty and people with money can buy anything they want. Pizzas, hamburgers, ice creams and other foods are readily available contrary to poor provinces in the countryside, where inhabitants are suffering from food shortage and would eat anything they thought is edible.

Posted by James Fried on Thursday July 28 2011, 2:27 PM EST. Ref: CNN. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under World. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0