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| Kim Jong Il Urges Food Production Boost - stresses vitamins available in paper products |
| 2004-01-12 |
| EFL North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Il has urged his country’s farms to boost food production, following a World Food Program warning that 4 million North Koreans are at risk of malnutrition because of a drop in international aid. The leader’s appeal, carried as front-page news Monday in the communist nation’s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper, came just weeks after the U.S. State Department announced it would send about 60,000 tons of food to the North to help avert starvation. On Friday, the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Office said it would chip in another $6.42 million in emergency nutritional aid for children in nine North Korean provinces. According to the North Korean report, also carried by the official KCNA news agency, Kim on Sunday inspected a food processing plant under construction and talked with the soldiers building the plant. Some parts of the facility were already in operation. They are standing by and awaiting actual food to process. Kim called for an increase in production at poultry and fish farms across the country, to provide North Koreans with an "affluent diet as early as possible," KCNA reported. Kim did not directly refer to his country’s food shortages Glad our food shipments are continuing to provide him with budget relief. |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #12 Think Rodung Sinmun contains all the minimum daily requirements for the average North Korean's diet? Rodung Sinmun! Now with calcium! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-1-12 10:54:30 PM |
| #11 We need to put some carriers upwind of the peninsula and have a big barbeque for 7th Fleet. See how many Norks defect by swimming out to international waters. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2004-1-12 10:23:50 PM |
| #10 Of course all this means is that Kimmie can give more food to his military since we are feeding his starving people. So it all ends up the same. I propose that the State Dept. send nothing to North Korea. Let the NK military personnel do a little starving on their own, for once. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-1-12 10:11:19 PM |
| #9 Shipman, he should have used the brown towels from the gas station lavatory - more fiber and they also make good coffee filters (the hose recommends either use a dark colored mug with this filter or go serve the joe in very poor lighting.) |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-1-12 9:40:47 PM |
| #8 Next Kimmy is going to introduce Soy Burgers. It will be cheap and free up the spare rooms in Greenpeace HQ. |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-1-12 8:52:22 PM |
| #7 Bomb, I think one of the problems Kimmie-boy has had in the past is that the NGO's were complaining about not being able to verify the distribution of the food. Of course all this means is that Kimmie can give more food to his military since we are feeding his starving people. So it all ends up the same. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-1-12 7:14:29 PM |
| #6 When I was young and poor proper nutrition was left to loose change and girlfriends... I once came home to the singlewide to find my roomie talking to god and rolling peanutbutter into kleenex.. sort of a papyrus veggie ball. He'd gone through 1 12 oz. jar and about 100 ft. of Charmin. Hi! Doug! True story. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-12 7:14:04 PM |
| #5 Dang, who drank all the Juche? |
| Posted by: BH 2004-1-12 5:46:09 PM |
| #4 ..came just weeks after the U.S. State Department announced it would send about 60,000 tons of food to the North to help avert starvation. And just who is going to distribute the aid? If the food is going to just be handed over at the nearest port to NK officials for distribution, why not just give it to NK military personnel? After all, isn't that where it'll all end up eventually? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-1-12 5:40:30 PM |
| #3 Lot's of vitamins in tree bark. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2004-1-12 5:32:31 PM |
| #2 Kim Jong Il Urges Food Production Boost - stresses vitamins available in paper products Vitamins A,B,C, even S,T, #,@ and %. They could even get get carbohydrates, but are too addled to spell it in their nutrition deprived state. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-1-12 5:17:28 PM |
| #1 Sorry Fred, the editor wouldn't let me change the heading to Korea once I had hit submit. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-1-12 5:02:06 PM |