N Korea 'in urgent need of food'

The head of the World Food Programme's North Korea mission told the BBC that without new contributions famine-like conditions would be likely to reappear.

The warning comes as North and South Koreans hold a second day of talks at which the North is expected to call for more aid and agricultural fertiliser.

Seoul says it has offered new proposals to Pyongyang to resume six-party talks on its nuclear weapons programme.

The two sides are meeting for high-level discussions at Kaesong, just north of the border, for their first talks for 10 months.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4553695.stm

for something other than acquiring nuclear weapons.

but how long could that army march on an empty stomach?

Don't go, Condoleeza! It's a cookbook!


On a serious note: the U.S. is the only nation I know of that had a revolution on a full stomach. Bear that in mind as we begin to funnel food to Kim Jong Il.

Manufacturing nukes.

I bet al Qaeda will pay big time for one of those.

BTW, Jude Wanniski says that John Bolton is the only source on NK's supposed second nuclear program.

Not a very trustworthy one at that.

All the nukes they are making now are coming from plutonium from a heavy water reactor they had during the Reagan and Bush 41 administrations.

Those materials were under UN lock and key until John Bolton screwed up the talks with NK.

No problemo for Bush though. He needs his 3rd Pearl Harbor.

Have you seen his ratings?

this is the worldwide message we have put out to all countries-

I say give'm all nukes and see how many countries we take over to exploit resources and cheap labor!

As IF N. Korea wants to go on the offensive and attack us!--
just like Saddam wanted to attack us eh?
Does anybody think N.Korea may just want to maintain soveriegnty? --
--even if it is a military regime, they do have that right.

talk about nukes--
What about Israel?
We gave THEM nukes and no one seems to care at all.
And is Israel aggressive?

it's all a big joke.

If we had anyone in US Gov with any bloody common sense and diplomacy, we coiuld make NK an ally, feed their people, and GENTLY NUDGE the country into democracy over time.

Just like America could have done with Cuba and Iraq.

But instead, we have the blustering belligerant insane lunatic that threatens and demands and bosses the world around...and invades sovereign nations, exactly as Hitler did, who weren't a threat to anyone and weren't doing anything against anyone and has good "democratic" allies like Uzbekistan

then surrender in a week. That way they will get all the aide they need.

N Koreans 'facing starvation'
Catherine Armitage, China correspondent
May 20, 2005

NORTH Korea is facing a food crisis as the biggest aid donor countries wrangle to get the isolated regime back to the negotiating table for nuclear disarmament talks.

With no large shipments since October, the UN's World Food Program has been forced to cut down food supplements to the 3.8million people on its books as "core beneficiaries", including pregnant and nursing women, children and the elderly.

"It's a severe crisis getting worse," WFP spokesman Gerald Bourke said in Beijing yesterday. "People there are living on the edge," he said.

"It's a very difficult decision to make if you have to decide between an elderly person in the city, and a hungry child in an orphanage."

From this month, 1.2million women and children will lose their supply of supplementary pulses, and next month 2.1million primary school children, poor urban households and elderly people will stop receiving cereals. By August, the UN agency's existing cereal supply will support only 12,000 children in hospitals.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15346785%255E2703,00.html

mutant be you glorious leader. I feel sory for these people but we can do very little, the best thing that could happen to these people is unification under the souths democracy.

This is a decade-long story - first blamed on a drought - that seems never to end. Reports are that the further you get away from Pyongyang, the more the food crisis is killing people.

I don't think Kim is starving, though, and I don't think he cares whether his countrymen are starving. Echoes of the Ukraine in the 20's and 30's for Stalin.