but they only have weapons - to kill others.
As usually (since the early 1990s) North Korea heads into the time of year when its food supplies run low, it appears to be looking for new donors.
North Korea may face a severe food shortage, told ambassador Hong Gyu to President Elbegdorj, according to the account.
Mr. Hong then asked for Mongolia to consider the possibility of delivering food aid to North Korea, the account said.
According to WSJ it was at a courtesy call on the Mongolian president last week: Pyongyang’s new ambassador made a request for food aid, according to the official website for the head of state.
North Korea’s toughest part of the year for food begins in April and runs through September, when the annual corn harvest begins.
Kwon Tae-jin, a scholar on North Korean agriculture in Seoul said that last year’s yield was moderate, but not sufficient to tide the country over.
Food isn’t sufficient to go around for everyone, said Dr. Kwon, a director at the Korea Rural Economic Institute in Seoul.
There are other signs of food shortages.
Daily NK, a news website staffed by North Korean defectors, reported last week that Pyongyang did not distribute food to the northernmost province for the biggest holiday of the year; the April 15 anniversary of the birthday of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung.
Ofcourse assistance from international organizations and South Korea has dropped in recent years but President Park Geun-hye has pledged to continue providing aid to the North despite a deterioration in relations with Pyongyang. Mongolia is last friend this bloody of this dictatorship.
Since the severe famine in the 1990s, North Korea has struggled to feed its people.
Finnish communist leader Arvo Aalto had a time in the late 1980s to see the `heyday´ of the of North Korea, where getting excited Juche philosophy.
Reijo Käkelä, the Secretary-General (1984-1988). |
The Juche, compact political thesis formed by Kim Il-sun and other party theorists such as Hwang Jang-yop, were elaborated the Juche Idea into a set of principles that the government uses to justify its policy decisions. Among these are a strong military posture and reliance on Korean national resources.
The name comes from juche, the Korean translation for the philosophical and Marxist term `subject´.
According to Kim Il-sung, the Juche Idea is based on the belief that `man is the master of everything and decides everything´.
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