The chronic famine in North Korea seems to have gotten worse:
FOUR million North Koreans will starve in the freezing northern winter because international aid donations have dried up amid rising suspicion over the isolated country's nuclear weapons activities.I don't see what the problem is. I found a picture of this year's senior class meal at Kaesong High School:
A United Nations agency said yesterday its food supplies were all but exhausted and it would have to abandon four million people already on short rations.
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UN North Korea representative Masood Hyder said in Beijing yesterday: "A food crisis is on us at the wrong time. We are scraping the bottom of the barrel."
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Mr Hyder said the agency did not expect mass starvation deaths. But malnutrition and other health problems would surge among North Koreans whose daily aid rations of about 500g of food a person was already considered the bare minimum needed. In 2002, 42 per cent of North Korean children were found to be stunted.
When asked if he was enjoying himself, class salutatorian Kim Il-Suk (second from right) said "I haven't eaten this well since my junior class meal."
Posted by Chris at February 10, 2004 08:36 AM