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General Category => World News => Topic started by: DemolitionMan on November 07, 2017, 07:29:27 am

Title: The black-market street food that’s keeping many North Koreans alive
Post by: DemolitionMan on November 07, 2017, 07:29:27 am

Johnny Simon

Food insecurity is a massive problem in North Korea. Despite the isolated nation’s growing economy and open imports for food, millions still go hungry every day.Concerning the diets of North Koreans, Reuters reported:
Pyongyang says 70 percent of North Koreans still use the state’s central distribution system as their main source of food, the same number of people that the U.N. estimates are “food insecure.” The system consistently provides lower food rations than the government’s daily target, according to U.N. food agency the World Food Programme (WFP).


https://qz.com/1119762/the-black-market-street-food-thats-keeping-many-north-koreans-alive/

Title: Re: The black-market street food that’s keeping many North Koreans alive
Post by: TomSea on November 07, 2017, 02:41:36 pm

Amazing. Prison Nation.

Title: Re: The black-market street food that’s keeping many North Koreans alive
Post by: Sanguine on November 07, 2017, 03:36:59 pm

"Food insecurity" is a silly, politically-correct euphemism for what in NK is starvation.