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Nopants_Jedi t1_ja5zftq wrote

Damn, it must be a lot worse than we think/know

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venom259 t1_ja5zq4o wrote

Covid hit them hard.

I wouldn't doubt that what farmers they had were hit especially hard.

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Nopants_Jedi t1_ja5zzm0 wrote

Yeah a disease that's only fairly deadly but can also be debilitating in a malnourished population with shit infrastructure and crappy healthcare....what could go wrong?

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venom259 t1_ja60eo8 wrote

And now that I'm thinking about it, China did suffer several debilitating floods last year which spiked their crop production.

That usually translates to less food for North Korea.

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xenoghost1 t1_ja6cdt3 wrote

but tankies on twitter kept praising their ballistic LARPing

guess now we know why they were launching missiles, shame those don't feed people as Dwight Eisenhower use to say.

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Ok-Welder-4816 t1_ja651fd wrote

But their population is also very rural and spread out, with little travel or interaction outside of local communities (you need a travel pass to even leave your village), and demographics that skew young.

Although the military could be an important vector due to their omnipresence and relative mobility. But they're also all young and relatively fit.

I would think the elites, living their somewhat more modern lives in Pyongyang, would be the most at risk. I assume only the very very elite (i.e. Kim and friends) have access to the kind of healthcare needed to offset the risk of living in an urban setting.

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LuangPrabangisinLaos t1_ja92q3p wrote

It's a centralized economy with a black market. Ultimately all communities intermingle, and every village has weekly meetings for self criticism.

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Ok-Welder-4816 t1_jaa678o wrote

Sure, some brave folks are involved in the black market, but not most people.

They still have less interaction overall.

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djokov t1_jac3nzb wrote

Incorrect, most people are involved in some sort of black market trade. The North Korean jangmadang are not like typical black markets and many North Koreans depend on their existence. The NK government on the whole tends to tolerate the markets, though they impose regulations on some goods and restrict who are allowed to work in vendor stalls.

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MoonManMooner t1_ja7u2o7 wrote

North Korea still collects human waste for fertilizer.

They most likely infected everyone under the sub by doing this during the pandemic.

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firebat45 t1_ja6a0k3 wrote

Isn't every meeting North Korea holds "amid food shortage"?

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macross1984 t1_ja6057l wrote

Shrink the military and divert the money saved to farming and infrastructure to increase food production....which will not happen.

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GlobalTravelR t1_ja6d3k4 wrote

His daughter needs eat more if she wants to grow up short and fat, with a bad haircut, in order to rule North Korea.

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Vegetable_Frosting59 t1_ja7dgu9 wrote

Why do we always focus on appearance like it's the worst insult we can give? Why not focus on the actual negative things he's done like a dictatorship then what a little girl looks like?

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markedbeamazed t1_ja6bx0f wrote

Stop sending missiles over the ocean and start feeding your people. From what I can see only the leaders are eating well.

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autotldr t1_ja5yc57 wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)

> SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opened a major political conference dedicated to agricultural improvement, state media reported Monday, amid outside assessments that the country's chronic food insecurity is getting worse.

> Observers have seen no indication of mass deaths or famine in North Korea, though its food shortage has likely deepened due to pandemic-related curbs, persistent international sanctions and its own mismanagements.

> It's unclear whether North Korea will take any action to quickly address its food problems.

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sanjsrik t1_ja65bm0 wrote

But, they've got plenty of tanks.

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xenoghost1 t1_ja6dcup wrote

and missiles that have western imperialist quaking in their boots. from laughter.

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countofmontycrinkles t1_ja8e9eh wrote

So that famine that shrunk an entire generation just never ended?

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MonsterHunterOwl t1_ja6k8lk wrote

Can’t people there just sustain themselves from the love of their supreme leader, or their god, or whatever they are fed via their dictactor deepthroated nonsense?

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beechcraftmusketeer t1_ja7rpmj wrote

Hmmm they are the only country that has a state funded cook book on how to cook and eat grass.

I wonder why they want to change🤔🤔🤔

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ZuesLeftNut t1_ja88h83 wrote

Oh no guys, look out! NK gonna kill us all, right after they eat something.

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It's like a feature for dictators to be incapable of seeing 2 steps ahead of their actions.

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bottom_jej t1_ja9on1r wrote

Honestly this just sounds like a future headache for China to deal with

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hibaricloudz t1_ja77ouz wrote

They should send some ships to those areas where their missiles land to get fresh floating seafood

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DeMalgamnated t1_ja72zcu wrote

"why aren't people farming?"

"we already ate all the animals and food"

"YOU FARM!"

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armed guards escort farmers away...

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i order watch towers and missiles to be deployed on every farm!

brainwashed country cheer

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probably.

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KerRa-Stakraa t1_ja7a4di wrote

Collecting (Australia) woolworths farm bricks for his kid right?

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