North Korea Tells Citizens to Prepare Themselves for Famine

North Korea instructed the country Monday to brace itself for possible famine and severe economic hardship — but not to despair, because “the road to revolution is long and arduous,” according to an editorial in the state-run newspaper.

The article, published in Rodong Sinmun — the print mouthpiece of the North Korean government — comes less than a month after the U.N. Security Council voted in favor of slapping the Hermit Kingdom with tougher sanctions, after the country teased its potential nuclear and military capabilities earlier this year. The editorial stated that hardships to come might evoke another “arduous march” — the term assigned to the famine that struck the country in the mid-1990s, killing as many as 3 million people, reports the Telegraph, a British newspaper.

“We may have to go on an arduous march, during which we will have to chew the roots of plants once again,” the editorial piece read.

North Korea Tells Citizens to Prepare Themselves for Famine

I wonder if supreme leader will lose Un or two pounds?

Oh Jeez....when are these people going to rise up and dump his horrific regime?

Sure, a lot of them will probably be killed. But it's gotta be better then famine every few years or so.

Surely, enough of them have access to devices by now that can get info from outside the country to show them how ridiculously awful they have it?

DA60 said:

Oh Jeez....when are these people going to rise up and dump his horrific regime?

Sure, a lot of them will probably be killed. But it's gotta be better then famine every few years or so.

Surely, enough of them have access to devices by now that can get info from outside the country to show them how ridiculously awful they have it?

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Probably because they believe from past experience that the Chinese will help the current regime quell any uprisings.

It must be terrible to live under a rock and then have your divine leader with no anus stomp on that rock as you try and wiggle for a little elbow room.

Does anyone other than diehard communists on this forum believe "the divine leader" is going to go on reduced rations if this famine hits again?

How much money did those missile guidance systems cost? I can bet it was enough to feed a few villages.

Communism in general is a failed system, both politically and economically, but I think even most Communists would agree what is happening in North Korea is more akin to Tsarist Russia than any Communist ideology.

Anytime a leader is said to be super human does not lend itself well to their philosophy. That is why I feel he is more like a Tsar than any commie leader.

DA60 said:

Oh Jeez....when are these people going to rise up and dump his horrific regime?

Sure, a lot of them will probably be killed. But it's gotta be better then famine every few years or so.

Surely, enough of them have access to devices by now that can get info from outside the country to show them how ridiculously awful they have it?

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Too bad they have no 2nd Amendment.

PakPuk said:

North Korea instructed the country Monday to brace itself for possible famine and severe economic hardship — but not to despair, because “the road to revolution is long and arduous,” according to an editorial in the state-run newspaper.

The article, published in Rodong Sinmun — the print mouthpiece of the North Korean government — comes less than a month after the U.N. Security Council voted in favor of slapping the Hermit Kingdom with tougher sanctions, after the country teased its potential nuclear and military capabilities earlier this year. The editorial stated that hardships to come might evoke another “arduous march” — the term assigned to the famine that struck the country in the mid-1990s, killing as many as 3 million people, reports the Telegraph, a British newspaper.

“We may have to go on an arduous march, during which we will have to chew the roots of plants once again,” the editorial piece read.

North Korea Tells Citizens to Prepare Themselves for Famine

I wonder if supreme leader will lose Un or two pounds?

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This is all typical of communism in practice. In this case for North Korea they have done this exact same thing before.

The cycle is simple. Demand food in the form of gifts or tributes from their citizens, to the very point that their own die from lack of food. A new equilibrium is established between the necessity of the State to survive on what it thinks it needs and the necessity of the people to survive on whatever is left.

The lesson here is on the ultimate end game of communism. The pawns in that game are not the military force, but rather the people themselves. The producers, that in North Korea are the agricultural populations and fishing populations. The ration of food in favor of government is commonplace in any strong central government where the people are effectively reduced to slavery.

The rest is just rhetoric... "revolution" and "nuking Washington" is all just foolishness that Kim Jong-un is issuing to support the stance that dying of starvation makes one a better loyal citizen. He will end up in the history books next to plenty of other lunatics who had similar thinking.

American said:

Too bad they have no 2nd Amendment.

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They do have a right to protection by the leader and against the leader, if that is required. But it is a UN guarantee and worth, what we have learned to be the value of r2p.

North Korea is one of the greatest comments on the inhumanity of man in history. It is pure madness.

PakPuk said:

North Korea instructed the country Monday to brace itself for possible famine and severe economic hardship — but not to despair, because “the road to revolution is long and arduous,” according to an editorial in the state-run newspaper.

The article, published in Rodong Sinmun — the print mouthpiece of the North Korean government — comes less than a month after the U.N. Security Council voted in favor of slapping the Hermit Kingdom with tougher sanctions, after the country teased its potential nuclear and military capabilities earlier this year. The editorial stated that hardships to come might evoke another “arduous march” — the term assigned to the famine that struck the country in the mid-1990s, killing as many as 3 million people, reports the Telegraph, a British newspaper.

“We may have to go on an arduous march, during which we will have to chew the roots of plants once again,” the editorial piece read.

North Korea Tells Citizens to Prepare Themselves for Famine

I wonder if supreme leader will lose Un or two pounds?

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So much for the glorious worker's paradise.

To be honest, I'm surprised a military leader hasn't put a bullet in the guy's head already. I can't believe those guys like it any more than the average person.

He'd be have to be willing to die pretty quickly, though.

PakPuk said:

North Korea instructed the country Monday to brace itself for possible famine and severe economic hardship — but not to despair, because “the road to revolution is long and arduous,” according to an editorial in the state-run newspaper.

The article, published in Rodong Sinmun — the print mouthpiece of the North Korean government — comes less than a month after the U.N. Security Council voted in favor of slapping the Hermit Kingdom with tougher sanctions, after the country teased its potential nuclear and military capabilities earlier this year. The editorial stated that hardships to come might evoke another “arduous march” — the term assigned to the famine that struck the country in the mid-1990s, killing as many as 3 million people, reports the Telegraph, a British newspaper.

“We may have to go on an arduous march, during which we will have to chew the roots of plants once again,” the editorial piece read.

North Korea Tells Citizens to Prepare Themselves for Famine

I wonder if supreme leader will lose Un or two pounds?

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Fat boy is nuttier than his father and grandfather, perhaps he will eat his way to an early grave.

As if these folks were dining in Downton Abbey before...

RetiredNSmilin said:

It must be terrible to live under a rock and then have your divine leader with no anus stomp on that rock as you try and wiggle for a little elbow room.

Does anyone other than diehard communists on this forum believe "the divine leader" is going to go on reduced rations if this famine hits again?

How much money did those missile guidance systems cost? I can bet it was enough to feed a few villages.

Communism in general is a failed system, both politically and economically, but I think even most Communists would agree what is happening in North Korea is more akin to Tsarist Russia than any Communist ideology.

Anytime a leader is said to be super human does not lend itself well to their philosophy. That is why I feel he is more like a Tsar than any commie leader.

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The guy is a communist in name only, its a hereditary dictatorship.

yankintx said:

The guy is a communist in name only, its a hereditary dictatorship.

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Which is what communism really is, a hypocritical con game.

PakPuk said:

Which is what communism really is, a hypocritical con game.

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Cold war warrior? lol