Bucket brigades (?).
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| North Korea army mobilized as rivers run dry in worst drought in years |
| 2014-06-23 |
| I kinda wonder what they would do to get water if this keeps up. North Korea's rivers, streams and reservoirs are running dry in a prolonged drought, state media said on Monday, prompting the isolated country to mobilize some of its million-strong army to try to protect precious crops. The drought is the worst in North Korea for over a decade, state media reports have said, with some areas experiencing low rainfall levels since 1961. Office workers, farmers and women have been mobilized to direct water into the dry floors of fields and rice paddies, the official KCNA news agency said. With what, their hands? In the 1990s, food shortages led to a devastating famine which killed an estimated million people but gave rise to a fledgling black market that in some areas now provides the food the government can no longer supply. Linda Lewis, of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker-led NGO, confirmed the media reports and said managers on its North Korean partner farms had seen lower-than-usual rainfall levels in March and May. "They expressed concern about 'serious drought' conditions and the impact this was having on spring ploughing and paddy field preparation," Lewis told Reuters via email. In some areas, she said, farm managers had experienced 70 days without rain. Higher-than average temperatures have exacerbated damage, affecting wheat, barley and maize, state media said. North Korea has previously blamed drought and floods for chronic food shortages which observers say are the result of bad planning and a highly centralized economy. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #5 Just wave your hand and make it rain, after all you're god.(Or so you say) |
| Posted by: Redeck Jim 2014-06-23 21:51 |
| #4 'Tis all CHINA'S fault???? * WAFF > [Sovereign Man] CHINA MUST IMPORT MORE WATER THAN THE US EXPORTS OIL. Professor Gan Li of Texas A&M University. VERSUS * CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [Forbes] A NEW "CHINA DREAM": BEIJING, A SEAPORT? Proposed Canal-to-the-Sea. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-06-23 20:41 |
| #3 With what, their hands? Bucket brigades (?). |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-06-23 15:32 |
| #2 Maybe the chubby little dictator brat should drown the weather forecasters in the Yalu river for this. Just sayin. |
| Posted by: Thineng Angailet7166 2014-06-23 15:15 |
| #1 The rest of the world is crumbling into chaos, but... Champ will ensure that N. Korea gets a bailout just like all his other fellow travelers. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2014-06-23 14:32 |