Hungry North Korean soldiers "ordered to steal corn because war is imminent"

[Miles Archer]

Hungry North Korean soldiers 'ordered to steal corn because war is imminent'

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hungry-north-korean-soldiers-apos-043511033.html

As North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un boasts of his military prowess and flaunts his high tech weapons to the world, his malnourished soldiers are said to be stealing corn from fields to stave off hunger pangs.

Officers are ordering their troops to supplement their meagre food rations by plundering local fields, in order to keep up their strength for battle, according to a report in the Daily NK.

“The military officers are instructing their soldiers, exhausted after training, to eat corn in the fields because war is imminent,” a source in North Hamgyong Province told the news website.

“They are even threatening their soldiers, saying: if you become malnourished despite permission to eat the corn, you will face difficulties.”

[NightWatcher]

1. We need to drop cannabis brownies and edibles with a note attached

The note says "take off your uniform, lay down your weapons, and walk across the DMZ to SouthKorea. We have more snacks over here".

[Not Ruth]

2. Meanwhile we pay farmers not to grow crops

What a world

[FLPanhandle]

3. That's not true

Farmers can get a subsidy to diversify their crops and promote more environmentally friendly practices. The idea that it's “paying farmers not to farm” isn't true, it’s actually a complicated way of helping to reduce over-dependence on one crop.

If you care to read more...
http://harvestpublicmedia.org/post/paying-farmers-not-farm-not-exactly

[FLPanhandle]

4. Yet another man made famine for North Korea due to their crazy government

I wonder if they didn't spend every cent on the military how the situation would be.

[DetlefK]

5. Similar story from last year:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201608260066.html

DANDONG, China--Not many people put their lives at stake for Chinese take-out, but a few hungry North Korean soldiers did just that in this border city in the shadow of the Great Wall of China.

The armed troopers sneaked across the border into China, pounced on a donkey in a civilian's yard, butchered it on the spot and fled into the night with the hunks of meat.

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“(The incident) may mean the food shortage is severe even for soldiers, who supposedly have priority over supplies,” said another source.