Why Is Starvation Important In North Korea

The country of North Korea has long been under the watchful eye of not only the United States but also the United Nations for many years over concerns of it nuclear weapons program but now, they are being looked at for an entirely different reason. Recent reports about the inhuman treatment of an estimated 200,000 North Korean citizens in the countries six political prison camps are been closely looked at. These reports show the mistreatment, starvation, and even unlawful killing of North Korean citizens from everything from owning a Bible to watching soap operas.

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

ABC News stated, “North Korea: Lives of luxury for elite as Kim Jong-un rolls out nationwide reform to combat widespread poverty.” The strict set of rules North Korea lives by is setting the nation up for failure. Their leader is a temperamental, immature, and power hunger man that will lead that nation to defeat. Kim Jong-un is testing with nuclear weapons and is threatening us and many of our allies. Jong-un is spending the money that can be used to help the nation thrive to help him gain personally. There is said to still be an estimated 120,000 prisoners still in labor camps. At these labor camps, torture and executions are common.

As well as having many similarities with Marxist and Stalinist ideologies, Maoist ideologies show their influence as well. Today, outside analysts see little of Juche in North Korea. Much outside help has come as far as economics. North Korea survives heavily on imports and exports through China and other countries. Also, people have little influence on the choices made in government. (Kang, 2001)

North Korea has been receiving financial support from the United Nations as well as food supplies. Many people would claim that North Korea has an ongoing famine due to the floods they would continuously experience throughout the years, damaging the soil. Others would argue and say that the famine happened because North Korea is a communist country and the military is purposefully starving their people. Regardless of these arguments, the fact still remains, the people of North Korea are dying rapidly due to malnutrition. The only solution feasible to this problem would be to send agricultural scientists over to North Korea and help restore the damaged soil, so that it may grow healthy crops once again.

And North Korea’s hunger problem continues to this day: Pyongyang has relied upon “emergency” international humanitarian relief for over a decade and a half. Earlier this year the DPRK lodged an urgent appeal to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) for another round of food aid. North Korea is thus the world’s first and only industrialized economy to lose the capacity to feed itself.’’

To begin with, compared with more affluent countries in its region, such as South Korea and Japan, North Korea actually has a higher self-sufficient ratio for grain consumption in a normal year. South Korea and Japan rely on imports from more than half of their grain where

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

One of first steps to save the North Korean citizens is to give these people hope and the information that there are people working from the outer world to save them. Since the North Koreans lack such knowledge, the United States should focus in communicating with the people. I believe such connection is necessary because it will give the North Korean the strength and the purpose to endure. Efforts just made from the outside world are not enough. We need the people in North Korea to start the revolution. One of North Korean government’s greatest fears is the

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

It is said that Kim Jong UN starves his people. The World Food Program estimates that “six million of North Korea's twenty five million people are in need of food aid and one-third of children are regularly malnourished or underdeveloped.” Analysis of escapees from North Korea shows that those born after the Korean War in the late 1950’s were on average about two inches shorter than South Koreans. Most North Koreans survive on corn and kimchi, a preserved cabbage. Many people in North Korea or either being born smaller or dying earlier than normal. (North Korea Country Profile-

Back in Washington, President Clinton’s administration concluded that North Korea was reviving their nuclear missile program and demanded access to the suspected facilities being built. Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, granted access to multiple locations to U.S. officials for inspection of facilities in exchange for financial aid and food (Hathaway & Tama 724). North Korea’s negotiation for aid from the U.S. does not come as a surprise for the simple fact that citizens living under the supreme leadership of Kim Jong-un live in absolute poverty. Although the state-run government experiences hardship by trying to provide an adequate supply of food for citizens; the government spends a huge sum of money to maintain a large military force.

As one of the most antagonizing countries, North Korea seems to find the wrath of the United Nations more frequently than any other sovereign nation. The country’s human rights abuses and violations of international law have led the international community to impose heavy trade sanctions with North Korea (cite). While the country attempts to be largely self-sufficient, malnutrition is a growing problem for the people of North Korea (worldhunger). Based on its geographic location and violation of international law in regards to nuclear capabilities and human rights abuses, North Korea is in a perilous situation in the next seven years. Its increasing globalization and fervent nationalism suggest, however, that while the country may evolve and become more globalized, it will survive as the contentious nation-state it is today.

Most people have heard about North Korea and all the abnormal and inhumane human rights violations taking place. Not only are people being opressed from their most basic freedoms, but they are also denied proper health care for their children. Children are malnutritioned

     I think there are many things that the United States has to do in order to resolve the problems that are occurring and to prevent more problems from happening in the future. The first thing that I think the United States should do is to treat them as nicely as possible, even if it means going against what we believe and letting them get away with bad behavior. In the long run it might be a bad thing to do because it could influence other nations to think that they can walk over us and take advantage of us. However, I think it would be the correct thing to do right now because the last thing anyone wants is a nation that is angry with you that holds nuclear weapons. If, however, North Korea refuses to accept our proposal for negotiations and does not agree with anything that we have to offer, I think the only other option is to attack them with