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  • In March 2016, North Korea called upon its citizens to prepare for anotherarduous

  • march” - a reference to the country’s devastating famine in the 1990s. North Korea’s

  • food shortage is so dire that the government launched a 70-dayloyalty campaign”,

  • requiring farmers to donate crops to the military and citizens of Pyongyang to provide more

  • than two pounds of rice to the state every month. So, how did North Korea get to this

  • point?

  • Malnutrition is nothing new for North Korea... the country has a long history of food shortages.

  • After the famine of the 1990s, North Korea relied on international donors - like China

  • and the United States - for about 80 percent of its food supply. But throughout the 2000’s,

  • its donors steadily cut them off, in response to the country’s persistent human rights

  • abuses and growing nuclear program. By 2013, the country’s food aid had dropped almost

  • 20-fold. The United Nations reported in 2015 that 70 percent of North Koreans are food

  • insecure, and more than a quarter of children under five are chronically malnourished.

  • North Korea’s current plight is largely a result of its severe drought, which the

  • government calls its worst in a century. In 2014, rainfall hit a 30-year low, and roughly

  • 30 percent of the country’s primary crop has dried up. In the past, North Korea has

  • dealt with the country’s periodic floods and droughts with proactive farming techniques;

  • but, the severity of this drought has outweighed even their most efficient methods. Even privately-owned

  • markets - which were once a primary source of food for city-dwellers - have been strictly

  • curbed under Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.

  • This is under the backdrop of North Korea’s severe inequality and corrupt government,

  • which experts say has fueled many of the country’s otherwise avoidable food shortages. North

  • Korea’s social system, calledsongbun”, assigns citizens one of three designated social

  • classes, based solely on their family history. A person’s songbun determines where they

  • work, live and even how much food they receive from the state. Accordingly, those with the

  • lowest songbun suffer the most from food shortages. It’s estimated that more than three million

  • North Koreans died during the 1990s famine, many of whom belonged to the lowest societal

  • sector. What’s more, the North Korean government has reportedly prioritized its military and

  • nuclear program, over feeding its hungry population. According to the UN, this strategy has persisted

  • even during periods of mass starvation.

  • North Korea’s allies and other world leaders have responded to the country’s massive

  • military spending with economic sanctions, which are reportedly the toughest in two decades.

  • These prohibit UN members from purchasing North Korea’s two largest exports: coal

  • and iron,. But as history shows, the government is hesitant to help its own people. Instead,

  • as famine looms, the state has asked its citizens to [quote] “chew the roots of plants once

  • again”.

  • Millions in North Korea are starving, with almost no resources to turn to. Watch this

  • video by DNews about the effects of starvation on the human body, to learn just what North

  • Korea’s population is going through. Thanks for watching TestTube News, don’t forget

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北朝鮮政府のせいで国民が飢えているのか? (Is The North Korean Government To Blame For Starving Citizens?)

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