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N.Korea Faces Worst Food Shortage of Pudgy's Reign
2015-11-05
North Korea faces the worst food shortage since 2011, when leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un took power.
He should have pushed himself away from the table...
Experts say the impoverished state will fall 1 million tons short of next year's expected minimum food consumption of roughly 5.4 million tons.

A severe drought that plagued the North this summer has led to a 10-percent drop in food production.
Not to mention the totalitarian repression, concentration camps, militarized police state, and lack of an economy. No, the news reports never mention those things. It's always a drought.
A decrease in agricultural imports from China due to soured relations is believed to have exacerbated the situation.
Posted by:Steve White

#10  How do things get worse than eating bark?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2015-11-05 22:42  

#9  You could see this coming when they started raiding cemeteries on the Chinese side of the border a couple of years ago. Scavenger hunt and all.
Posted by: ed in texas   2015-11-05 12:28  

#8  Must be about time for Pudgy to fire a few more missiles so Baraq will send him some rice?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-11-05 12:10  

#7  Send Bernie Sanders and Hillary to investigate.
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-11-05 11:12  

#6  They sure have no problem importing parts for missiles, nuke tech, or ammunition.
Posted by: chris   2015-11-05 09:09  

#5  Remember from 45 years ago studying the Soviet economy and how drought stricken it was that most of the vegetables had to be grown in small private plots instead of on collective farms. Amazingly localized droughts.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-11-05 08:07  

#4  Has anyone asked Bernie Sanders for a Comment?
Posted by: Bill Snore1687   2015-11-05 07:07  

#3  #2 They should call Iran.

Iran is probably still made about the shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts that the norks sold them.

Do I need a sarc?
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2015-11-05 02:13  

#2  They should call Iran.
Posted by: Skidmark   2015-11-05 01:01  

#1  I think that the whole country should sleep more. They would also use less oxygen and generate less CO2. The latter should make 0bama happy.
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2015-11-05 00:33  

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