North Korea Famine

However, due to poor soil and lots of floods, farming is a hard job to do in North Korea and because of this fact, many of the nation’s people live in poverty because of the focus on having a lot of agricultural workers, but the Kim family continues to maintain their power but Kim Jong Un maintains his power differently than his grandfather and that is why he is able to keep his power.

1945-1950: Kim Il-Sung eliminated members of the Northern Korea Worker's party and other homegrown socialists, as well as leading nationalists and political democrats in order to begin securing full political power. Secret Political, Concentration Camps Established the 1950s: A system of secret political prison camps was set up in order to sustain the large-scale purges of the late 1950s.1950s: Kim had members of rival factions, including those in the Soviet, Yanan, and Domestic factions, either exiled or executed. By the late 1950s, the numbers in the purges increased significantly. Thousands were executed publicly while still more were sent to rural areas, mines, hydropower dams, and prison camps. Kim Il-Sung Eliminates All Detractors 1960. Kim Il-Sung's Final Purges Clear the Way for His Son 1970s. The Mass-Starvation of the 1990s: Widespread famine devastated North Korea, killing over 2.5 million, and perhaps upwards of 3.7 million, North Koreans, more than 10 percent of the population. Twenty thousand people starved to death in South Hwanghae Province, which is about ten percent of the area’s

Physically the lack of food has irreparably damaged the bodies of its citizens and the size of the country’s population. By the early nineties the food shortages were becoming apparent, though the government would say nothing until it could no longer refuse to publically acknowledge it. For the regime the lack of food was less about whether people were going hungry or dying but about whether or not ideology was holding up. The inminbanjang wanted to know if people were upset, Comrade Kang asked Mrs. Song persistently, “As the food distribution became less frequent, she wanted to know if people were bad-mouthing the regime.” Mrs. Song never asked, because the lack of food drained her to the point of lethargy (pg. 71). Her remaining energy

The starvations of the people are caused by the government doing nothing to help its people. About millions of people die every year due to starvation under Kim-Jong Un’s ruling. Korea’s education programs, films, news, and propaganda are controlled by the government, so the people only see and hear what the leader wants to them to know. The citizens of North Korea have little or no say about who is elected to rule, just like the dystopian novels, Legend and Surviving Antarctica. The reason Kim-Jong Un became leader of North Korea was because of his father’s death. The country and the novels are meant to show the readers how powerful and corrupted the government is becoming. The authors are trying to warn the readers that the government is becoming more and more powerful, and if we don’t figure out a way to deal with it now, then we will have a future just like the dystopian

The situation for the people of North Korea is growing more desperate every day due to the conditions the government has put on it’s people. From famine to imprisonment and concentration camps there is unmistakeable misery. North Korea needs to have intervention from other countries to assist their people with human rights reform. Also South Korea has challenged North Korea to prove it does not violate human rights of its citizens. “For starters, there's a resurgent famine driven by gross government mismanagement that threatens millions of lives, hundreds of thousands of political prisoners languish in concentration camps, and an estimated half-million refugees remain in hiding from forced repatriation that often results in torture and execution” (Hong). In this quote Hong explains that these people needed help because they feel threatened, so they are scared for what will happen next. Hong’s opinion that, North Korea

Even admitting that the economic and agricultural changes were the main factors, some scholars are content that poor policy decisions driven by politic are to blame for the North Korean famine. North Korea may be responsible for the famine as they falied to take action against the uncontrollable natural forces. North Korea created the famine through a series of deliberate policy decisions and the perpetuated the famine by refusing to undertake sufficient remedial action.

North Korea has become “increasingly reliant on international aid from NGOs, South Korea and the UN to feed its people” (Poverty & Famine, 2012). After the famine began, the South elected a liberal president who was “keen to build peace with the ‘sister country’” (Poverty & Famine, 2012). This actually helped to rebuild and bond the two countries’ trust. Since then, however, things have changed. After George W. Bush changed policies along with South Korea’s new and more conservative president from 2008 to 2013, relations have been more tense with the North and they slowly stopped receiving aid from the U.S. In 2013, when a new president was elected, South Korea donated $12 million in food supplies and fertilizer to NK as part of the President’s plan to foster a “new era” in inter-Korean relations (Manyin & Nitikin, 2014, p. 4). Supporting the United Nations’ efforts in finding donors who will fund the World Food Program towards North Korea is in their best interest. However, because of lack of funds, they’ve had to slow down aid: “Its program for the country has only received about $5.7 million in aid this year, mostly from Switzerland, Australia, Canada, and private donors” (Cheng, 2014), and also noted by Thomson Reuters Foundation (2015), “funding for UN agencies in North Korea dropped to less than $50 million in 2014, down from $300 million in 2004.”

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 s people’s everyday lives and only does things for preparing war. Moreover, the North Korean government, North Korea dose not like allow relief agencies to personally deliver the grain

North Korea a country which was richer than its South Korean counterpart provided better services to its citizens fell in decay. A once former recipient of vital Soviet economic aid had now seen its former ally wither away and with that the aid was cut. The loss of Soviet Aid had hurt the North Korean food supply production, and natural disasters had made it even worse. The current crises ultimately lead Kim Jong Il to focus on a military first policy in which the armed forces would receive the first supply of food, products, and health services. The policy was a disaster for ordinary civilians who were dying at a rapid rate, statistics put the death toll around 300,000 to 3 million. To the surviving this led to forced cannibalism as there was no other option. Western governments were reluctant on providing aid to a dictatorship and North Korea’s former allies were in no mood to

Four million people have died of starvation in North Korea since 1995. They do not have enough food to give to everybody in the country but they do have large mineral resources which they can use for making billions in trade. In the U.S. we can give North Korea food and it could benefit us. It could benefit us because if we start talking to them we could extract an agreement that could be good. Food is very important for human rights. “North Korea Orchestrates Famine as a Tool of Repression”

Famines are officially declared when people start to starve to death from lack of food. Famine does not result from purely natural causes but is usually man-made. One example is the South Sudanese government tactics against the rebels in fighting the current civil war. Another example is south sudanese government allowed humanitarian organization they would have been able to avoid a famine.Another example is that the government's recent attacks on areas where food production fed large parts of the population which causes human displacement. Famine is mostly caused by the government’s poor handling of the people.

During the period 1995-1997, North Korea has been experiencing a variety of ecological impact, where the face of drought and floods which destroyed the already weak agricultural sector in the field and led to a national hunger. It is very rare that the industrialized countries are relatively standard of living experience that is expected from hunger. Hunger and flooding in the mid-1990s destroyed agriculture, and reports of hunger and poor nutrition are common. In fact, some scientists speculate that narrows from top to 1989, agricultural production of up to 50 percent of North

The impact of the Korean war played a major role in shaping the political state of Korea that is still Running today. The war brought about dramatic changes in North Korea’s Political economic system by ending direct Soviet control, it provided basis for the consolidation of Kim Il Sung’s power within the Korean Workers’ Party. This provided power for Kim II Sung to impose political and economic con and declared himself as the self-actualized “center” Totalitarian political system requiring loyalty to himself and his son, Kim Jong Il. This also gives Kim II Sung the ability to eliminate political

Part 1- The West has known of the Korean Humanitarian Crisis for decades in fact an estimated 3.5 million North Koreans may have died from starvation in the 1990s, and more than 10 million, or about 1/3 of the population, suffers from extreme poverty and starvation-like conditions. Even though North Korea has one of the largest allocations of food aid in the world over a million tons annually, famine persists because of the secretive nature of the country. North Korea is, in fact, in economic meltdown and crisis, total international isolation, and continued propaganda and manipulation of all information. One fundamental principle in Korea, called juche, is roughly translated as "self sufficiency." Heaped along the docks, though, are tons of rice stamped "Gifts of the UN or Gifts of the USA," often left to rot because the population is fearful of being punished for eating Western food.

This essay will delve into United States foreign policy for North Korea explaining both perspectives of the theories Marxism and Realism relating to international relations. The main focus of the overall policy in question from the last paper was strategic patience, nuclear proliferation, economic sanctions, and hacking. Another interesting and relevant topic, to be added, is about the food aid provided repeatedly by the U.S. in false hope for possible proliferation of North Korea.