Reports Of Famine In North Korea's 'Rice Bowl'

Why People In N.Korea's 'Rice Bowl' Are Starving -- Chosun Ilbo

Thousands of people are starving to death in North Korea's South Hwanghae Province even though it is the country's rice bowl, according to a defector.

"Villages in remote mountains can resort to slash-and-burn farming to survive, but in lowland areas where there are only cooperative farms, 30 to 40 people in each village starve to death every year," said Choi Myong-chol (not his real name), who used to handle crop harvests in Haeju, South Hwanghae Province. "The reason is that their entire harvest is confiscated," he told the activist website NK Reform.

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My Comment: If they are reporting 20,000 dead .... that tells me that millions are suffering.