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China-Japan-Koreas
Six million North Koreans to face food shortages: WFP
2005-03-27
The UN World Food Programme said Saturday that due to a lack of donations it was going to have to gradually stop supplying rations to 6.5 million North Koreans, and called on Pyongyang to lift restrictions on the distribution of aid. "We're doing our best to mobilize support, but we need more help from the authorities in Pyongyang," WFP Asia director Tony Banbury said in Beijing, following a four-day visit to North Korea. Because its stocks are exhausted, the WFP has already stopped providing vegetable oil to 900,000 old people, and as of this week will have to stop delivering essential nutritional supplements to 600,000 children in creches and nursery schools, Banbury said during a press conference. If nothing was done by the start of May, 1.2 million child and woman would not receive any more "WFP pulses" and a million other people would be deprived of cereals as of June, he said.
Posted by:Fred

#17  You poor, suffering darling, Shipman. Perhaps it's time you just gave up and grew your own, hmm? And it would mow the lawn for you, and you could knit a pair of baby booties from the wool, too!
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-03-27 7:55:47 PM  

#16  Normally I don't like lamb much, but we were in the Orkneys a few years ago and had lamb that had just been slaughtered 2 days prior ... raised on the grass there. It was a totally different product than the stuff in the supermarket here.
Posted by: too true   2005-03-27 3:49:33 PM  

#15  Happens in Florida too TW. You can't believe what Publix wanted for a small leg of lamb.

and BTW lamb MY A&& hell the bones of a leg of lamb are not normally the size of a Louisville slugger. Just call it mutton and we'll all be happy.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-03-27 3:42:08 PM  

#14  food shortages So that what it's called nowadays.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-03-27 2:22:32 PM  

#13  Well, we've learned just this past week from the MSM that starving to death is peaceful and serene. At least we know that the Norks won't suffer.
Posted by: JerseyMike   2005-03-27 1:34:29 PM  

#12  Let's Schiavo the North Koreans. It's the new morality.
Posted by: badanov   2005-03-27 10:37:46 AM  

#11  hell, let em starve
Posted by: Thraing Hupoluper1864   2005-03-27 10:10:08 AM  

#10  Roasted rice paddy rat stuffed with wild spring greens sounds delicious to me and 15 million North Koreans
Posted by: sea cruise   2005-03-27 6:28:01 AM  

#9  Talk about your bad timing.

...[N]o people had been infected but hundreds of thousands of chickens had been culled and the carcasses burned. Ouch.
Posted by: Rex Rufus   2005-03-27 5:48:22 AM  

#8  It's springtime in Korea and time to pick all the wild weeds and fatten up after a rough winter. How do you say thin thin rice gruel in Korean?
Posted by: sea cruise   2005-03-27 5:44:14 AM  

#7  gah *first* , not firt
Posted by: MacNails   2005-03-27 5:12:54 AM  

#6  Six million North Koreans to face food shortages , and now NK has its firt admited bout of bird flu ..
Posted by: MacNails   2005-03-27 5:11:59 AM  

#5  Kimmie can always try feeding his people missile and nuclear bomb parts...
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-03-27 4:44:22 AM  

#4  CHINA<-KIMMIE<-GENERALS<-ARMY<-COMMIE GANGSTERS<-STARVING POPULATION

alot of bad people depend on KIMMIE, killing him wouldn't be enough, everyone's corrupt and brainwahsed with hate and lies, like madras graduates...ignorance isn't a good excuse.

I place the blame mostly on China for the 50+ year conflict, Kim is a bumbling heir, that's only my opinion.
Posted by: Hupereling Wholumble6492   2005-03-27 1:23:08 AM  

#3  This is a perfect opportunity to point out that, after the industrial revolution, ONLY UNDER MARXIST TYRANNIES do whole nations starve.

Apart from that, let them eat juche. We should make any food help (even one bag of rice) conditional on regime change. And send them pictures of well-stocked supermarkets in America and South Korea. Starvation in NoKo is entirely man-made and Kimmie's fault.
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever)   2005-03-27 12:14:45 AM  

#2  It looks like Kimmie-boy-the-baby-killer is eating well....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2005-03-27 12:09:16 AM  

#1  All the more reason for the North Korean people to overthrow their oppressors.
Posted by: Jonathan   2005-03-27 12:07:36 AM  

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