Famine - North Korea

Oct 1997
Mark Davis reports on the devastating famine in North Korea of 1997, confirming the extent of the food crisis, and that international aid did not get through to the people who need it most.

He captures a rare insight into the negotiations between CARE and the government Relief Committee, who complain CARE is not helping enough. The obsessively secretive government wants to direct all aid to the fertile rice bowl areas around the capital, because productivity here is highest. Then they will then be able to feed the starving in the country's north. Williamson disagrees and is granted a rare permit to travel north to judge for himself. The team break the schedule and visit a nursery of their choosing. Here the hungry children are lacklustre and silent. Officially banned from filming in hospitals, desperate doctors allow the camera in. Hungry mothers are supposed to supply food for their children. A family with no men starve more than their more productive neighbours. If you don't work, it seems, you don't eat. This is no socialist famine. The government says the north is not a farming area and shouldn't get aid first. CARE says aid should go to the starving.

Produced by Lighthouse Pacific (Mark Davis)
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[Richerthanyoulol]

Kim Jong il should be in FBI's Most wanted....

[fisichella78]

The problem is that Kim Jong Il is protected by Beijing commies.... so the big issue comes from the chinese rats in Beijing...

[Doowoo]

Welcome to planet North Korea.

[MrSkooty5]

@vikusa2008... I had to do a touble take as well. It is another flag..(NOT SWISS) It is a flag with a hammer a sickel and a brush. I believe it is the Juche flag. (Workers Communist Party) Hope it helps..

[Richerthanyoulol]

Omg i have a top comment sweet

[petedool]

Kim jung -un if you are reading this - your people are suffering and what are yopu doing to help?... your people are dying physically mentally spiritually. if you rule like your father well then you'll go down as another sad tyrant. or wake up and revolutionise your nation and be seen as a hero. reunite with the south and become korea

[Vict0r1984]

@fisichella: The biggest issue comes from yankee imperialists, who, instead of using their forces for fulfilling their propaganda goals (such as freedom and democracy), use them for gaining oil... Beijing isn't holding that much to North Korea! They even called it recently a "spoiled child" which should open its markets. The problem comes from the rats in Washington who invade countries only for resources, not for "freedom", and, being almost resourceless, the DPRK is not their target...

[lunafringe10]

there is a gigantic famine going on in the US. Just read abt it,

[lunafringe10]

@Richerthanyoulol if any FBI or other agent entered NK they d be incarcerated or hanged, to be sure

[lunafringe10]

nothing but US propaganda, And if there is, its owed to US initiated sanctions by their

UN puppets.

[vikusa2008]

00:56 Swiss flags????? Why are there Swiss flags???

[DaLittleHorror]

@Richerthanyoulol he's totally dead now.next stop... kim jung un :)