North Korea calls bolton a defective human...

found this article on zerohedge.

and whoever the NK official was is correct. in fact, bolton should be hanging from a rope. he really works for the military industrial complex and is looking at any excuse to bomb a country. any country.

it's about the recent missile launches by NK

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-27/north-korea-calls-john-bolton-defective-human-product-warmonger

Bribe to maintain North Korean local markets

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reveals a report based on interviews with 214 North Korean refugees about bribery and corruption in North Korea.

The reports says that everyone involved in North Korean local markets (Jangmadang) has to give bribe to government officials in order to maintain their rights to earn money from the local market.

North Korea has a long way toward democratic market economy full of human rights and equal opportunities.

http://news.kbs.co.kr/news/view.do?ncd=4210256&ref=A

food insecurity in NK or no?

here is another article out of DailyNK reporting the potential food aid from South Korea.
the editors note however reports from traders living in NK that food prices are stable and have not heard anything about people starving yet.

not sure what is going on here but i think the world food organization and UN food and agriculture organization know something that the traders don't. that is: worldwide droughts and flooding to the extreme. you can see it all over if you look.
they are alerting south korea to a potential famine like the one in the 90's

the north has been experiencing drought though and crop failures so i don't know how there couldn 't be cause for concern here.

DailyNK says they are going to get more reports from traders in NK so we'll see.

here is the report

https://www.dailynk.com/english/even-north-korean-farmers-are-starving/

here is another article that came out today.
an interview with an NK official but again, DailyNK states that no one on the ground is reporting food shortages yet.

 https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korean-official-shares-views-on-south-korean-aid/

update
recent article out of Asiapress talking to reporting partners from within NK say things are tight but people are not starving yet.

http://www.asiapress.org/rimjin-gang/2019/05/recommendations/south-to-send-support/

some reccomended movies about life in North Korea

two movies i've seen both produced by North Korean defectors give the viewer an idea about the harshness of what life must be like in NK.
people find themselves in impossible situations and are forced to do things they wouldn't normally do.

the first one is called "Crossing". as the name implies, a father crosses into china to find medicine for his wife who is pregnant.

the movie is available on amazon and has english subtitles if anyone interested.

 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9740330355/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

more information here with screenshots of the movie and there is a trailor on this page as well

http://asianwiki.com/index.php?title=Crossing&forcepurge=1#comment-2002805

the second one i saw recently at the winter film awards in New York city on the invite of SoonJa of No Chain for North Korea.
it's called "the Gift of Love"

we met at Cinema Village to watch the move.
the director of the movie, Gyu-min Gim was there as well and we went out to dinner afterwards.

this time, the wife makes a hard decision to earn some money to help her ailing husband and things go wrong.

you can read about it here.

https://winterfilmawards.com/film/wfa2019-the-gift-of-love/

 there is also a link to questions and answers of the director Gyu-min Gim
he was a major in the DPRK army and witnessed many situations like this.
he co-directed the movie Crossing also.

here is a trailor of the movie

so to sum up. these movies wont cheer you up but you get an idea through the eyes of people who have been there what it must be like.

this is why we do what we can.

more articles reporting food shortages..

came across this article from the watchers website reporting drought and frost causing more crop losses.
estimate 10 million in urgent need of food assistance

droughts and flooding are signs of worldwide climate cooling

the average person is in a bad spot because they cant move to a better region for growing food. the border security has been reinforced and refined over recent years mainly by the chinese
it is very difficult now to escape the confines of DPRK.
if one does manage to get into china, there is a higher probability they will get caught as well. 

https://watchers.news/2019/05/13/hunger-warning-after-early-drought-hits-dprk-10-1-million-in-need-of-urgent-food-assistance/

here is another article out of rimjingang reporting starving farmers because regime set such high quotas

http://www.asiapress.org/rimjin-gang/2019/04/recommendations/rural-starvation/

more news of food shortages

this was mentioned by the ice age farmer in his presentation of the cooling climate.

he sited this article

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/north-korea-food-report-1.5121684

with the growing season getting shorter for everyone, it will be particularly hard for north Koreans (as usual) because of sanctions and lack of fertilizer.

here is the video (North Korea at the 3:45 mark)

introducing No Chain for North Korea

No Chain is an organization that was started by a North Korean by the name of Jung Gwang-il.

he spent time in Yodok political prison camp and was released in 2003.
Shortly after, he managed to escape his homeland

His strategy has been to send rice in bottles, radios, dvd's and information about the outside world on usb drives or sd cards.
the groups delivery method has traditionally been via the sea currents that flow towards North Korea or balloons floated over the border but they are now looking at drone delivery.
the group also helps NK refugees get out of China and in to safe countries.

i see this group as worth supporting.

you can read about Jung Gwang-il in this article

https://www.mic.com/articles/186655/i-spent-a-day-with-north-korean-defectors-who-lived-through-hell-and-want-a-revolution

here is a video of the founder at the Oslo freedom forum which is embedded in the article but i'll post it here anyway

they have a facebook page but i think they have a website in the works

https://www.facebook.com/NKNoChain/

here are some pictures of the group doing their work

 

How many churches are there in North Korea?

How many churches are there in North Korea?
There are about 500 churches in North Korea.

Pyongyang Seminary educates pastors and new pastors are dispatched to churches throughout North Korea.

Worship is almost the same as ordinary churches do.

What is the difference between North Korean churches and ordinary churches in the world?

The main purpose of North Korean is the unification of Korea, while the main goals of churches is mission and evangelism.

http://news.kmib.co.kr/article/view.asp?arcid=0924077123&code=23111111&cp=nv

agriculture will continue to deteriorate in North Korea

been looking into the climate lately and despite what the nightly news tells you, the world is not warming. it's cooling.

we are headed into what they call a solar minimum where the sunspots are much less than what they are normally which translates to a drastic cooling effect on this planet and every other planet in the solar system.
the sun drives the climate, not us.

what we are seeing now is unseasonable weather, difficult to predict weather and this is causing large crop losses all over the place.

so i started thinking about North Korea and how they are really going to suffer.
for a start, they are right up there in the northern latitudes. the winters will come sooner, be more severe and last longer.
crop losses will be huge.

here is an article from the DailyNK describing the current state of agriculture. written by a North Korean

https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korea-requires-assistance-to-improve-agricultural-infrastructure/

so if they have trouble with their current system now, they are really going to have trouble in the next few years.
every country including the united states, is starting to feel the effects of this solar minimum and in two or three years, there will be no denying it.
those of us in the developed world are going to see food prices rise and then we'll see food shortages.
for the North Koreans, it could be like going back to the 90's famine all over again but this time with much colder weather.

some of you might be familiar with the chinese ghost cities. there has been lots of speculation regarding these but i'm starting to think they are well aware of what is coming and have built these cities ahead of time in anticipation of some areas of china going offline. meaning uninhabitable or at least not able to grow food or have livestock.
in the video below, David DuByne points this out.
the chinese are also building ghost cities in angola africa along the equatorial region

ghost city in the middle of angola

Kim Jong-Un has probably been told this by his chinese counterpart which could explain the friendly stance with South Korea and United States as well.

here is the  video. something to think about.