Stephan Haggard Quoted on North Korea
Cutting aid starves N.Koreans
07/07/2011
Peter Goodspeed,
National Post
Famine is threatening to return to North Korea.
International aid agencies and foreign diplomats in the isolated communist country say the public food distribution system has collapsed and up to six million people now risk malnutrition and starvation.
After a harsh winter and a poor spring potato crop, North Korea has drastically cut back on public food handouts and food supplies for ordinary people have dwindled to almost nothing.
"You see more people out in the fields and on the hillsides digging roots, cutting grass or herbs. So, there are signs that there is going to be a crisis," Katharina Zellweger, who heads the Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation in Pyongyang, told reporters last week.
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