North Korea: Disaster, Hunger, Famine, Rebuild
Famine is the one of the biggest problems in the world. More than 800 million people are suffering from hunger. The people of North Korea suffer from hunger on the level of the notorious Somalia, Sudan, and Ethiopia famines. They just suffer in silence behind the world media. There are several facts about the North Korea famine. One of the main factors for the North Korea famine is political problems: The North Korean government ignores people's everyday lives and only does things like preparing for war. Moreover, the North Korean government, North Korea does not allow relief agencies to personally deliver the grain to those who need it most, which causes some general problems for getting contribution from other countries. My research paper reports fact about the North Korean famine. For example, how serious the North Korea hunger is, what problems North Korea have, and what efforts can be taken as part of the world food summit. This paper suggests that; everybody in the world should help North Korean hungry people for economical, political, and national reasons. There are a lot of innocent people, especially children affected by this problem. Famine is the one of the biggest problems in the world. A lot of children die from hunge
r. What is famine? There are several factors. (1) The first fact for this famine is the natural disaster in North Korea. The second fact in this famine is that North Korea uses a nationwide public distribution system, steadily diminishing rations means that nearly the entire population has been weakened by slow starvation and all food could run out at the same time. The third fact for this famine is that contributions for food relief to North Korea are so slow. In 1995 and 1996, (2) the most devastating floods in its history overwhelmed North Korea. These floods struck the provinces that produce 60 percent of North Korea's grain. There are fields of rice that have been completely destroyed by salty water. In 1997, after two years of devastating floods, North Korea is in the grip of what may be its worst drought of this century. The drought has destroyed almost three-quarters of the corn corp. Livestock is dying, and the rice crop is threatened. Maize and rice crop has been affected by disease following the harsh conditions. Food productivity had fallen to around 30 percent of previous levels in some areas. (3) The main problem is that North Korea, is a communist country, which is closed to the out side world. Very few North Koreans ever have an opportunity to leave the country and those who do are the most loyal to their communist leaders. North Koreans do not hear news from the outside world. They only get a report that is monitored from their government. Foreigners are rarely allowed to visit North Korea. And those who do get the opportunity report that they are watched, followed and monitored during the entire time they are there and are very restricted as to where they are allowed to go. Most North Koreans do not realize that they are now the poorest nation on earth and do not have enough food to eat. They have been told that eating one meal a day is actually healthier then eating three. If the North Korean people could see how the rest of the world really lives they would probably realize how their nations leaders have deceived them. One side problem is that the people in North Korea for many years have note been allowed to choose their own business or occupation. (3) They have been taught that the government will take care of them. In this environment with no free enterprise there has been no incentive for people to do anything on their own. When relief agencies try to give aid to North Korea the North Korea government is very rigid about only accepting aid on their terms, which often means that much of the aid goes to their large military (4) (some 35% of the economy goes to support the military). Helping to relieve the famine will not do anything to reli
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