Food Shortages Reach The N. Korean Elite

Best to cut them off from food aid for a bit. The regime should be left to collapse on its own and when they are ready we can go in and clean up the mess. Too bad for the people there though, but they will be better off in the long run to get rid of this bunch of crazy bastards. Once again the script plays out although American Communists seem to be ignoring the famine. Communism’s legacy, 100 million dead and counting. Sounds like a warped McDonalds ad.

The Beginning of the End: Food Shortages Reach Pyongyang

The regime has contained and survived mass-casualty famine and dissent in the countryside before.  A severe downturn in Pyongyang, however, is a game-changer.  If the regime can’t even feed its elite, it’s going to have to take some chairs away from the banquet table.  That means commissars and apparatchiks will shiv each other for the remaining chairs as though their lives depend on it.  A rumored phase-out of the “military first” policy introduces a whole new pool of potential coup plotters. This could be the beginning of the end.  If the report is true – and if China doesn’t execute an Olympic-sized airlift to reverse those conditions fast – there’s a 70% chance of regime collapse within the next year.

One Free Korea Via GWP