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Hm... But it is the US and the EU who put trade embargoes on buying goods from North Korea. And this is mainly the reason of why people are starving there. THis
by ommunist 14y ago
Hm... But it is the US and the EU who put trade embargoes on buying goods from North Korea. And this is mainly the reason of why people are starving there. THis country made a truly heroic effort of producing EVERYTHING itself.
By the way there are thousands of kids like that in Chicago and Bronx.
- steve-howard 14y agoThe US has historically used food aid for North Korea as a bargaining chip; NK tests missiles, US sends less food. Not sure what this source's bias is, but here's a quote: > It has been widely reported that any food aid that arrives in North Korea is diverted away from ordinary citizens and doled out to key constituents, especially in the military. It is precisely for this reason that Pyongyang refuses to allow aid workers the ability to conduct routine monitoring of humanitarian aid delivery. http://www.cnas.org/node/5958 http://www.cnas.org/node/5958
- ommunist 14y agoWould trade embargoes be lifted, NK0reans could provide for themselves, no need for foreign aid. Foreign aid is a source of much corruption in the 3rd world, and you well know it.
- tptacek 14y agoNo there are not thousands of kids like that in Chicago. I assume not the Bronx either. Child starvation deaths in DPRK are common. Child starvation deaths in Chicago are extremely rare and almost uniformly investigated as homicides.
- ommunist 14y agoI lived in Chicago in 1999-2000, so I know what I am saying.
- tptacek 14y agoI've lived in Chicago all my life (on the south side where I grew up, on the north side, and now right up on Austin on the west side), and no you don't. Not to mention that your assertion is so out of whack that you can refute it with a single Google search.
- ommunist 14y agoHm. You probably never went into Harlem. Googling returns this: http://www.mercyhome.org/homeless-youth http://www.mercyhome.org/homeless-youth 2.3 – 3.5 million Americans experience homelessness at least once a year, effecting different ages, races and genders. 1/3 of the total homeless population families with children. 1 in 50 (1.5 million) of the total homeless population are estimated to be under the age of 6. 1.3 - 1.6 million unaccompanied or runaway youth annually. 50,000 youth experience long-term homelessness (six month or more) each year.
- valisystem 14y ago> it is the US and the EU who put trade embargoes on buying goods from North Korea. And this is mainly the reason of why people are starving there. That's not true. People are starving because the government is totally inept in making sure that enough food is produced each year, not because people can't buy it.
- shocks 14y agoHuh? You can't blame how fucked up NK is on the US or the EU. Not at all. >> By the way there are thousands of kids like that in Chicago and Bronx. Yeah, same in Africa and other places too. The difference is that each countries respective government doesn't lump 250,000 of them and their families into prison camps and exploit/torture/execute them.
- ommunist 14y agoThe US has the largest population of detainees in the world per 1000 inhabitants. And most of them are in fact used as slaves. Clean your own house, buddy.