drought on the Korean penninsula taking it's toll...

thought this was worth posting.
although south Korea is suffering, you can bet the average north Korean is suffering more.

https://electroverse.net/korea-heatwave-causes-unprecedented-natural-disaster-heavy-crop-damage/

the north Korean regime is telling everyone to exercise their patriotic zeal in saving water. just another patriotic thing they have to do...

the result of the drought and heatwave is loss of life, livestock and crop failures.
the north Koreans never get a break.

domestic rice shortage due to drought..

this is out of the asiapress / rimjingang website reporting that domestic rice has doubled in price due to inventories running out.

the good news though is that chinese rice is still available in the markets at a more normal price but i wonder how long that is going to last since china has been having its own food growing issues with the flooding last spring.

 

http://www.asiapress.org/rimjin-gang/2019/08/recommendations/komekakaku/ 

here is an article out of DailyNK about the drought situation

https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korean-officials-order-resid/