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Food shortages and violence mount in North Korea as Utopian dream fails
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| Contributor | kal |
| Last Edited | kal Feb 04, 2010 12:57am |
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| Media | Newspaper - The Times (U.K.) |
| News Date | Thursday, February 4, 2010 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The North Korean dictatorship is struggling to contain civil unrest and runaway inflation caused by a drastic revaluation of its currency, which is threatening new food shortages in an already hungry nation, according to reports in South Korea.
The country’s problems have even prompted a rare admission from its leader, Kim Jong Il, that North Korea is not the land of plenty that its rulers like to portray. “My heart bleeds for our people who are still eating corn,” he said recently, adding that the Utopian economy envisaged by his father had not materialised.
According to one news website, which has informants inside North Korea, the Government has reversed its decision to ban private markets after isolated incidents of unrest.
A separate report says that the senior member of North Korea’s Workers’ Party who led a recent crackdown on markets and small-scale traders has been purged, suggesting that the country may cautiously loosen its economy after a period of attempting to reassert central control.
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