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

North Korea - Famine - ABC Australia - Part 3 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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[sasktank]

Kim Jung iLL is the only FAT person in N Korea

[fangloulou]

i feel sad after watching this doc, expecially sad for the kids....

[TheSolitaryTraveller]

If we fight them innocents die, possibly by hundred of thousands. And they can't stand up to fight since they are to weak to fight.

You have to help them without existing, which countries can't do. And no private group would ever help since in order to help you would be breaking a massive amount of laws and make no money but loss money, not to mention people involved have to be in it knowing they are risking their lives for no gain for them.

[beautyofdirt]

The boy at 0:46 is 15 years old. Huh!

[GANMath]

it's not that hard to say "yes" to a decent offer...

[LauraIsPink]

@TheatricalRemote your wish has been granted the bastard kim jong il is dead now. hopefully his son is soon to follow. these people deserve better.

[crazygenius]

Only one thing can solve this problem. Kill those whoe run this country, replace by open minded people

[rohawkcc]

north korea cant last forever.

[TheatricalRemote]

@sasktank and so need to get rid of him , why have we not , sick waste of space , him and his son , truly the gross meter inso all over them , i hope they burn in hell for there greed

[TheatricalRemote]

id like to give kinn and his son a giant rice bullet ritght up his fat ass

[marysuss]

Gee let us help those kids..

[dominikatorka]

I watched other documentary about ex-prisoners from NK that had managed to escape.THAT is a horror.People in labour-camps are so hungry they eat each other.A guy said he knew a man that ate a child-he skinned him,ate his legs and arms and threw away his head.Horrible.Women are regularly raped and eat some poisonous plants to have an abortion.If they are lucky they eat rats,especially little unborn rats that they take out from a pregnat rat.People have no hair and teeth.They spend years like that