Some Food Situation Updates
MARCUS NOLAND FORWARDS two more updates on North Korea’s food situation. The first (“North Korea: The Emergence of Pre-famine Conditions”) is co-authored with Stephan Haggard; the second (“Korean Institutional Reform in Comparative Perspective”) is co-authored with Erik Weeks.
RICE EATERS, CORN EATERS, GRASS EATERS: The Daily NK has more on how the different classes in North Korea are surviving the current food crisis, and a very detailed report on food aid monitoring and manipulation. Among other things, some members of the elite are now forced to suffer the indignity of eating corn, something you should keep in mind when you consider this well-intentioned appeal. As before, it’s not a famine for everyone, though very few people are overeating.
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I wanted to make you and your readers aware of organizations like ours that smuggle in food on a semi regular basis. Especially during seasons like this one. We have been doing it for 7 years, with more partners with the same cause, we could do more.
The food goes to contacts that we have in the underground church. From there they feed their villages. We received a bunch of letters from them recently and had them translated. You can check on out at our blog.