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| China-Japan-Koreas |
| N. Korea Plans to Lease Farm Land in Siberia |
| 2011-09-03 |
| A delegation from North Korea held talks with authorities in Siberia on leasing land to grow vegetables and grain, Russia's state-run news agency reported. North Korean kulaks will then be imported... According to the RIA Novosti on Thursday, North Korea plans to rent several hundred thousand hectares of land in the Amur region, which has about 200,000 hectares of idle land in regional, municipal or private ownership. It quoted a Russian official as saying authorities in Pyongyang are planning the unprecedented agricultural project in an attempt to address that nation's food shortages. As opposed to growing food at home... Meanwhile, Amur region minister Igor Gorevoi said the land must not be abandoned and the newly-formed North Korean company must be registered in the region. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 But it is a Korean colonization program, not Chinese. The Russians are rightly concerned that the Russian Far East might be the next Tibet, and want demographic counters for that. The Russians are looking to get ethnic auxiliaries in place that are not Chinese; since they cannot convince enough ethnic Russians to move out there. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2011-09-03 15:03 |
| #5 They pay in part of the food they produce, RJ. And, of course it's a colonization scheme. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-09-03 04:08 |
| #4 How will they pay? Or will they pay? It's a colonization scheme. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-09-03 04:05 |
| #3 California couldn't win: too many one-inch fishies that need to be protected... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-09-03 01:47 |
| #2 I was saddened to learn that California lost the bid. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-09-03 00:21 |
| #1 perhaps the local lands are too barren, polluted, or....radioactive? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-09-03 00:18 |