Here is a rare look inside the great famine of North Korea filmed in 1997. This is right in the thick of this horrific famine, and this film is very heartbreaking. A Care International worker reports the conditions inside the secretive state, and you can see how he goes to great lengths to peel back the facade that North Korea is paradise as the official mouthpiece says.
Here, you will see ordinary North Koreans showing the reality, the negotiations with officials, minders and lot more. North Korea goes to great lengths to hide the very serious problems, and now with another famine in the horizon, I cannot imagine how many times it can happen without the state going into disarray. Maybe once the elite who get the lion’s share of the rations all of a sudden feel the pinch of shortage, maybe change will happen from the top down. I cannot foretell the future, but even after this very serious famine, North Korea kept on going. So the question is, how far can it go before it simply falls apart?
One cannot be certain, but it seems to me the path to collapse is in motion, and when it will finally crack and fall into a million pieces is unknown. All I can guess it will be a surprise to everybody once it does, and with the conditions the way they are right now, it will be one of the greatest humanitarian projects the world has ever seen once the the current regime has dissolved.
Also see CARE’s withdrawal from North Korea.
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