90 Miles From Tyranny : Facing Chronic Shortfalls, Communist North Korea Tells Citizens to Start Supplying Their Own Food

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Sunday, July 18, 2021

Facing Chronic Shortfalls, Communist North Korea Tells Citizens to Start Supplying Their Own Food


North Korea is ordering citizens to start producing their own food to prepare for a long-term food shortage that could last for three years, but ordinary people say that the government is shirking its responsibility, sources in the country told RFA.

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimated in a recent report that North Korea would be short about 860,000 tons of food this year, about two months of normal demand.

RFA reported in April that authorities were warning residents to prepare for economic difficulties as bad as the 1994-1998 famine which killed millions by some estimates, but experts said that the situation was dire, but nothing like the 1990s.

But now sources say the ruling Korean Workers’ Party is telling the people that they are on their own to find food.

“The Central Committee outlined the policy to prepare for a long-term food shortage at the beginning of this month,” a resident of the northwestern province of North Pyongan told RFA July 2.

“They sent a directive to organizations at all levels, businesses and units in the province to solve the food shortage problem on their own,” said the source, who requested anonymity for security reasons.

The order went from the Central Party to the Provincial Party Committee, according to the source. It emphasizes the seriousness of the food shortage under the prolonged coronavirus emergency.

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2 comments:

Unsolicited opinion. said...

Telling a subject of a communist utopia to feed themselves is like dumping a domesticated animal into the wild.

Noor al Haqiqa said...

Oh heck. That is not real communism! Every stupid 14 year old American teen can tell you that is not real communism. That is what they are learning in school isn't it? That is why Biden is ignoring Cuba isn't it?