|
Pudgy Balloons To 300 Pounds As Famine Nears
 Portly North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, whose hostile actions have brought crippling international sanctions to his impoverished nation, has a new message for the Hermit Kingdom's starving masses: Get ready to eat plant roots.Like everyone's had to do since 1953. And not before. And plenty of times since then. What a amazing genetic line. From being able to shoot 18 holes of golf with a score of 17, not having an anus, singlehandedly solving the "The road to revolution is long and arduous," an editorial in the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper said Monday, according to The Telegraph. "We may have to go on an arduous march, during which we will have to chew the roots of plants once again." We. Meaning everyone but me. "Arduous march" in North Korean is code for famine. It's how state media described the disaster that struck when Kim was a mere teen, which experts say was brought on by the economic mismanagement of his father, Kim Jong Il, loss of foreign aid and natural disasters. But mostly through stupidity, ignorance, obstinance, and wanting to remain king of the hill, which is really a pile of manure. But hey, it's a hill, and it's the only one they're ever going to have if they keep this up. But Kim, who at 33 walks with a cane and reportedly suffers from gout, won't miss any meals. Last September, South Korea disclosed that Kim appeared to have added nearly 70 pounds to his 5-foot, 9-inch frame over the previous five years, reaching an estimated weight of 290 pounds. Must be the stress of lots of late nights deciding who needs to be purged and how. Photos released over the past year have shown Kim Jong Un's rapid weight gain. The secretive regime hasn't said much about it, but South Korean analysts suspect he's been under severe stress. Investigators also note that he reportedly developed a taste for Emmental cheese while he was a student in Switzerland years ago. Pyongyang has ordered every citizen in the capital to provide around 2 pounds of rice to the state's supplies every month, while farmers are forced to hand over additional rations from their own meager crops to the military, South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported. Much more of these forced donations and it will be better to stop farming and just stick their hands out. At least in the short run it would be. But sometimes you need to think that way. The comments from state media come amid reports of North Koreans hoarding their food supplies, according to The Telegraph. Kim Jong Un's regime has been cracking down on open-air markets that have served as a source of additional food for city dwellers. "Even if we give up our lives, we should continue to show our loyalty to our leader, Kim Jong Un, until the end of our lives," the state-run newspaper wrote, calling for a "70-day campaign of loyalty." The staff of the official media seem to understand very well which side of the bread is buttered. And who butters it. Much of North Korea's population of 25 million is already hungry, but new sanctions, the most severe in 20 years, were approved by the UN Security Council after Pyongyang's February nuclear weapons test and a recent long-range missile launch. And the cost of reaching the goal of having a nuclear weapon will cost them about 5,000 lives a day if all goes well. And the cost of using it will be about a million in the space of a few seconds. The sanctions will further cripple North Korean trade and squeeze Kim's weapons programs. Under them, UN members are even barred from accepting the reclusive nation's main exports of coal and iron ore. But experts don't expect Kim's belligerence to stop just because the world shuns him. The latest message to the suffering people is yet another one of collective sacrifice. Collective, meaning everyone but the oligarchy. "It's an old pattern of telling the population to endure short-term hardship for the promise of larger benefits over the long term," Daniel Pinkston, a lecturer at Troy University in Seoul, told the Los Angeles Times of the Rodong Sinmun editorial. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice . . . . Oh, wait . . . . Posted by: gorb 2016-04-01 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=451029 |