Two stories broke today. First, from the UK Sun:
KIM JONG BOOM North Korea fires ‘several new missiles’ as tensions flare with the West
North Korea has fired several new missiles today as simmering tensions with the West have once again started heating up.
The weapons were fired towards the East Sea at around 9am local time just days after Kim Jong-un's regime threatened the US with "undesired consequences".
And a bit more:
Earlier this month, North Korea warned the US it faces "undesired consequences" if it doesn't meet its demands in nuclear talks by the end of the year.
Kim Jong-un's regime is demanding the Trump administration show more flexibility - or else it will go back on its promise to scrap its deadly nuclear arsenal.
Pyongyang says it will only ditch its weapons programme if the US agrees to scrap crippling economic sanctions on the country.
Kim is trying to have his cake and eat it too - he wants to continue developing nukes but he also wants a McDonalds in Pyongyang. Not gonna happen. Obama would have caved.
Second, from Reuters:
North Korea faces food crisis after poor harvest, U.N. says
Four in ten North Koreans are chronically short of food and further cuts to already minimal rations are expected after the worst harvest in a decade, the United Nations said on Friday.
Official rations are down to 300 grammes - under 11 ounces - per person per day, the lowest ever for this time of year, the U.N. said following a food security assessment it carried out at Pyongyang’s request from March 29 to April 12.
It found that 10.1 million people were suffering from severe food insecurity, “meaning they do not have enough food till the next harvest,” U.N. World Food Program spokesman Herve Verhoosel said.
And:
Verhoosel said the word “famine” was not being used in the current crisis, but it might come to that in a few months or years. “The situation is very serious today - that’s a fact.”
The country suffered a famine in the mid-1990s believed to have killed as many as 3 million people.
Ahhhhhhh - the joys of centralized state planning. The poor North Korean people are going to be in for such a shock when they join the Western world.
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