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March 20, 2008

The Beginning of the End: Food Shortages Reach Pyongyang (Updated)

[Update: Welcome to all of you who are coming in from Gateway Pundit and Best of the Web, and many thanks to James Hoft and James Taranto for linking.] Now that I’ve just spent five days writing this dissertation on North Korea’s worsening food situation, there’s dramatic new information that alters the entire analysis. This may be the single most significant event in North Korean history since the invention of blogs, because if it’s true, the regime is finished. North...

Categories Famine & Food Aid/Regime Change
March 20, 2008

Anju Links for 20 March 2008

HUMANS  AGAINST HUMAN  RIGHTS!    A group calling itself the Buddhist Human Rights Committee of South Korea isn’t uniformly enthusiastic about human rights: “That the S. Korean government has raised human rights issues of North Korea shows that the government, at the instigation of the U.S., is pursuing a policy of division which fosters mistrust and confrontation between the people of South and North Korea. Denouncing the U.S. as capitalist Yankees who detest and despise human beings, the committee said...

Categories Anju Links
March 20, 2008

MUST READ: WaPo Predicts Food Situation Will Pressure Kim Jong Il (Updated and bumped)

The Washington Post is the latest news source to note the deterioration of North Korea’s food situation.  The  Post suggests that  this time could be different from the Great Famine, when millions died quietly.  A grim rite of spring in Northeast Asia is the calculation of how many North Koreans could starve before the fall harvest — and what the neighbors are willing to do about it.  This year, though, the famine bailout season is more urgent, more complicated and...

Categories Famine & Food Aid