North Korea - Famine - ABC Australia - Part 2 of 3

North Korea - Famine - ABC Australia - Part 2 of 3

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.
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[GimmeKitty]

THANK you for uploading all the parts of this series! Poor kids. It's awful what the kids over there go through, isn't it?

[viera1963]

What were all those plants outside the staving family's home? It looked so lush and abundant that it seems ridiculous that they'd be starving. Are they unable to grow anything besides rice out there? These aid agencies need to provide these countries with seed instead of just giving them food. If they could grow food-especially things like potatoes that are filling and fairly nutritious as well as things like cabbage, carrots, avacadoes, tomatoes and other fruits that would be an enormous help.

[theWHYing]

Poor people that allowed to film, they might get jailed or executed

[philipkthompson]

strange how in the end, both this stalinist vein of "socialism", just as what goes around today as "capitalism": both systems just end up being used for protecting the further consolidation of power.

[mbriedis]

@TheatricalRemote Your wish has been granted! Sadly, I doubt that something will change now that his son is in charge..

[Sliuz95]

@TheatricalRemote because declaring war on kim jong also means you declare war on the innocent people in that country

[rohawkcc]

@sarabower1 what Fanmbv31 said... actually has some credit to it. so its not idiotic. at all actually.

[Beam261]

this makes me so incredibly sad. Government spending all their resources on propaganda and military while children are dying. Poor people.

[TheatricalRemote]

why cant we go and kill that bastard kimm and all would be better

[Rallisport]

This is so sad. I pray that things will be set right for the people who are suffering there.