A Crackpot Conspiracy Theory Goes Mainstream

My main site is still one of the first to accuse North Korea of falsely declaring a famine to cover up its political cleansing of its own population. Others are now joining in this stunning conclusion. Amnesty International is now accusing North Korea of depriving those in the “wavering” and “hostile” classes of food. Those caught stealing food are shot in front of schoolchildren. It’s a chilling read, but not a new tactic. Stalin killed ten million unwanted people the very same way in the 1930s. It’s all documented in Robert Conquest’s Harvest of Sorrow. Of course, inquiring minds have been wondering why North Korea had ten consecutive years of unprecedented natural disasters, every one of which somehow either missed or barely grazed South Korea.