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Kim Jong Il Urges Food Production Boost - stresses vitamins available in paper products
EFLNorth Koreaâs leader Kim Jong Il has urged his countryâs farms to boost food production, following a World Food Program warning that 4 million North Koreans are at risk of malnutrition because of a drop in international aid. The leaderâs appeal, carried as front-page news Monday in the communist nationâs official Rodong Sinmun newspaper, came just weeks after the U.S. State Department announced it would send about 60,000 tons of food to the North to help avert starvation. On Friday, the European Commissionâs Humanitarian Aid Office said it would chip in another $6.42 million in emergency nutritional aid for children in nine North Korean provinces. According to the North Korean report, also carried by the official KCNA news agency, Kim on Sunday inspected a food processing plant under construction and talked with the soldiers building the plant. Some parts of the facility were already in operation. They are standing by and awaiting actual food to process. Kim called for an increase in production at poultry and fish farms across the country, to provide North Koreans with an "affluent diet as early as possible," KCNA reported. Kim did not directly refer to his countryâs food shortages Glad our food shipments are continuing to provide him with budget relief. Posted by: Super Hose 2004-01-12 |
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