Friday, June 03, 2005

Slightly conflicting

A few days ago I read about how the DPRKs economy continued to climb this year.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200506/200506030024.html
but now I hear that they need more food aid and that they will be going through another difficult time like in the 90s.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200506/200506020019.html
Hungry N.Koreans Mobilized for '2nd Difficult March'

Food shortages in North Korea became so bad in mid-May that Pyongyang told its citizens to prepare for a "second difficult march," in an allusion to the famine of the 1990s, an official from the reclusive country revealed Thursday.


You would think that the fertilizer (that bought last weeks summit) and the milk (Korean milk bites anyways) would make this march a little easier...
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20050531/430100000020050531135049E4.html

But NO, instead the DPRK is focusing less on crops (don't let the pic above fool you) and more on their nuclear deterant.
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20050601/430100000020050601095105E5.html
U.S. intercepts nuclear, chemical materials to N. Korea
Good on them ;)
Who needs food when you have nukes anyways right?

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