MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

By Peter Foster – “FOUR North Koreans who recently risked their lives to flee across the closely guarded border with China say that families are scouring the countryside for wild plants in a desperate attempt to stave off starvation.

‘Some people are having to eat manure when they cannot get rice or corn,’ said one refugee, 68-year-old Kim Yeong.

The United Nations World Food Program says North Korea faces its worst food shortage in a decade, with 6 million people at risk and the regime is unwilling to spend its dwindling hard currency reserves on buying food for its population of 24 million.

Heavy rain from July 12 to 15 destroyed or submerged more than 20,000 hectares of farmland across the country, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said.

But the world has been slow to react for fear of propping up the increasingly belligerent regime of Kim Jong-il, which is vigorously pursuing a nuclear weapons program and threatening its South Korean neighbour.” Read more.