North Korea - Famine - ABC Australia - Part 1 of 2

North Korea - Famine - Part 1 of 2

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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[1Nanalo]

wow China and Iraq seemed to be a paradise compared to this.

[TheSolitaryTraveller]

If I ran a aid group I would never let food and medical stuff go into north korean legally, I would have it smuggled in and given directly to the people without so much as asking for a smile from them.

Because I know if I don't it will never reach anyone that needs the supplies, but I would make sure I never leave them alone with the stuff since I sure if caught with the supplies they would be sent away.

[LordKaisen]

@TheSolitaryTraveller If? Dude if you just sit on your ass it will never happen.

[gervic23]

1:27 click click click sound

[GoldfishLight]

there must be something we can do... seriously...

[pacatang1]

@lunafringe10 suck your dick asshole!! you dont know what you are saying!

[gopconservative78]

This is what happens when people vote for Obama and the Demorats........

[Parag0n]

@lunafringe10 There is no life in North Korea, only death. Death camps, labour camps...

Your 2nd cousin said something bad about the party? Too bad, you're family ends up in a labour camp.

Do you seriously deny these facts? To do so would be pure ignorance and stupidity.