While North Koreans Starve, Kim Jong Un Gets Fat

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visits the Kaeson Bread Restaurant in the Kaeson Youth Park Funfair in this undated picture released by the North's official KCNA news agency in Pyongyang

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In the camps, North Korean families starve. And during the worst of the famines, it wasn’t just in the camps.

There were times and places in North Korea in the mid-1990s, as a great famine wiped out perhaps 10 percent of the population, that children feared to sleep in the open.

North Korea’s famine is over, but the stories of desperate men and women, driven so insane by starvation that they consume their own children, have resurfaced. Last week, Asia Press published a report alleging that thousands recently died of starvation in a North Korean province, a trend that is sometimes called a micro-famine. The story was sourced to Rimjingang, a collection of underground North Korean journalists whose work is generally considered reputable. According to Rimjingang’s sources, the famine, like others before it, had led to cannibalism. One man, they said, had been arrested and executed for killing and eating his children.

But as always the elites of the left live well, while they starve their own people.

$645,800,000. That is what the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, is said to have squandered in 2012 on “luxury goods,” including cosmetics, handbags, leather products, watches, electronics, cars and top-shelf alcohol. In that same year, Mr. Kim also spent $1.3 billion on his ballistic missile programs.

$150 million. That is what the United Nations World Food Program asked donor nations to give for food and other humanitarian aid for North Koreans in 2013.

And Kim Jong-un faces a serious health problem. Obesity.

Kim Jong-un is putting his health at serious risk due to his dangerously high consumption of Emmental cheese, it has been claimed.

The 31-year-old North Korean leader got a taste for the cheese while a student in Switzerland – and is understood to love it so much that he imports vast quantities despite Western sanctions.

A unhealthy appetite for Emmental, also known as Swiss cheese, is believed to be a key factor in Kim’s weight ballooning so in recent months that he now walks with a limp.

Maybe we can send Michelle Obama over for a little bout of “Let’s move.”

 

 

  • Dan Knight

    Incredible. Great reporting Daniel. Thank you.

    One comment: How can thousands starving be a ‘micro’ anything? No one should be starving, save for shipwreck survivors or castaways who haven’t been found.

    • Squiggles

      I am thinking it is because it happened in a small area and is not an acutal representation of the number of dead.

      • Dan Knight

        Could be. Just seemed like a weird adjective to use in relation to famine.

        • Squiggles

          Completely agree that it is an odd adjective. But, it was really the only thing I could think that it could be. Even a quick google search only came up with the WP article or a few in a russian/slavic language based on the cyrilliac alphabet employed.

  • glpage

    Another wonderful example of socialism in action. The leaders always manage to live well while the general populace barely gets by if they’re lucky. That must be the allure of that idiot ideology; supporters think they will manage to be among the elites.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    Am I seeing things, but are those McDonald’s soda cups on the counter? Is that a McDonald’s fast-food store in North Korea? And, of course, Fatso is at the head of the line.

    • Dan Knight

      I don’t think it’s a McD’s, Ed. I think it is a clone.

      • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

        I didn’t think of that. Yes, they’re probably knock-offs.

  • Bamaguje

    “Mr. Kim also spent $1.3 billion on his ballistic missile programs. $150 million is what the United Nations World Food Program asked donor nations to give for food and other humanitarian aid for North Koreans in 2013″ – WP.

    So he could have fed his people with just $150 million, a tiny fraction of the $1.3 billion he spent on ballistic missiles… Not to forget his nuclear weapons program.
    Talk about wickedness of an insane narcissist tyrant.

    • Gee

      They ate the cows

  • Atikva

    Whatever name they may give to their particular shade of socialism, the tyrants of this totalitarian ideology are all cut from the same pattern. The people stupid enough to fall for their lies can be sure of 2 things: first, they will loose their freedom on the pretext of “equality”, then they will starve “en masse”, no matter how many natural resources the country may enjoy, and be slaughtered by their tyrants if they wake up and try to resist or escape. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Castro, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Un, same results.

    And all the while, these bloodthirsty hypocrites had no other goal but to install their dynasties as permanent rulers – and some have already succeeded.

  • georgejochnowitz

    Marxism leads to famine. It has always led to famine. it necessarily leads to famine.
    http://www.jochnowitz.net/Essays/MaosGreatFamine.html

  • DanTriplett

    Can’t someone just shoot that tyrannical fat fuck? Wouldn’t that end the Kim Jong reign, giving way to a more reasonable form of government?

    Surely the N Koreans aren’t so stupid as to truly love and respect that asshole. They can look across the border at S Korea to see how much better their lives are. Don’t they want that? I just don’t get it. I’ll bet they’d appreciate a CIA hit to eliminate him. Would anyone truly miss him?

    Truman is overrated. This pissing match should have been over with on his watch. But he thought he knew more than the Generals. Now look at us, beholden to some nuclear armed Swiss cheese loving egotistical maniac forever.

  • herb benty

    Communism, the collective, taken to it’s eventual end, vs., Capitalism that would not sink to that stage.

  • Hard Little Machine

    No one worried about the Kulaks either.