North Korea's government food distribution programme will run dry in May, 2011.This is what caught my eye:
The UN World Food Programme, which resumed sending food aid to North Korea in 2006, blamed flooding, foot-and-mouth disease, and an unusually cold winter for devastating food supplies to the country.I have long used this blog to voice my skepticism regarding global warming caused by man (but I keep my non-Bakken posts to less than 90 percent of overall content).
Based on photos and history of the Korean War, my concept of North Korea is a country with very cold winters. To read that the country had yet another "unusually cold winter" is interesting considering all the years we've supposedly had global warming. By now, I would have thought it would have gotten warmer in North Korea. It's been 60 years of increased industrialism since the Korean war, and yet, the winters remain unusually cold.
As JRR Tolkien said, we all have our myths.
On another note, go back and read the reasons why the UN says North Korea's food distribution programme will run dry. It is interesting that "inept government" and/or "corrupt government" did not make the list of reasons why North Korea is running out of food.
