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[verwijderd] 28 oktober 2021 15:08

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North Korea: Vulnerable at risk of starvation, UN expert says

Vulnerable children and elderly people in North Korea are at risk of starvation, a UN expert has said.

The UN's special rapporteur on human rights in the country blamed international sanctions and a Covid blockade for worsening food shortages.

As a result, North Koreans are struggling daily to "live a life of dignity" Tomas Ojea Quintana said.

He called for the sanctions - imposed over North Korea's nuclear programmes - to be lifted to prevent a crisis.

North Korea is thought to be in dire economic straits.

It closed its borders to contain the spread of Covid-19. Trade with China has plummeted as a result. North Korea relies on China for food, fertiliser and fuel.

This week, leader Kim Jong-un admitted the country was facing a "grim situation", the state news agency reported.

There have been reports that food prices had spiked, with NK News reporting in June that a kilogram of bananas costs $45 (£32).

In his latest report, Mr Quintana said the UN Security Council should look at easing the international sanctions and allow "humanitarian and life-saving assistance".

The US under President Joe Biden has repeatedly said it is willing to talk to North Korea, but has demanded Pyongyang give up nuclear weapons before sanctions can be eased. North Korea has so far refused.

Earlier this week, Mr Kim blamed the US for stoking tensions, saying it needs to continue developing weapons for self-defence.

Despite its economic woes, North Korea has continued to build its weapons and missile arsenals.

It has recently tested what it claims to be new hypersonic and anti-aircraft missiles.

www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58901817

[verwijderd] 29 oktober 2021 09:32

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Kim Jong-Un Asks Country to 'Eat Less' as North Korea Faces Acute Food Shortage. Telling to endure hardships till 2025 is the same as telling to starve to death

The supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, has asked the people of North Korea to eat less till 2025, citing the food shortage in the nation. Since the advent of the pandemic, North Korea closed its national boundaries for the supplies of goods from China. Moreover, the stringent sanctions on this East-Asian country, aimed at controlling the nuclear and weapon programme, also contributed to the food resources running dry. Officials are christening the foreseen period of famine as ‘Arduous March,’ a term that finds its roots in the famine that hit North Korea after the fall of the Soviet Union, taking as many as 3 million lives. In June, Kim Jong Un addressed a meeting of senior leaders, where he officially acknowledged the crippling condition of the country’s food resources.

North Korea is also prone to heavy downpours and typhoons that created a situation of crisis in various provinces of the country. In an interview with Radio Free Asia, a source said, “The authorities stated at the neighbourhood watch unit meeting that the food crisis would continue until 2025. They also stated that the reopening customs between North Korea and China resuming before 2025 has a very low probability.”

“Telling us to endure hardships till 2025 is the same as telling us to starve to death. Distrust and resentment at the authorities are rampant among citizens as they said that we should reduce the amount of food we eat and tighten our belts more than ever,” the source added.

As the situation worsens in the country and the food crisis urgency increases, talks regarding reviewing the international sanctions imposed on the nuclear programmes of North Korea, reported Express UK. Tomas Ojea Quintana, an Argentinian lawyer, and a United Nations Rapporteur in North Korea are the prime advocates for the review demands.

Earlier, Kim Jong Un had reportedly termed K-pop or Korean pop music, the popular music genre from South Korea a ‘vicious cancer’ which was corrupting the nation’s youth and their culture, keeping in line with the country’s crackdown on ‘capitalistic lifestyle’ and Western influences on youths. The state-run newspaper had recently warned the nation of doing more to stop “capitalistic culture from seeping into the country," as was reported by South Korean broadcaster Yonhap news agency.

The New York Times reported that Kim Jong Un said the music and its influence harmed the ‘attire, hairstyles, speeches, behaviours’ of North Koreans and that it could also make North Korea ‘crumble like a damp wall.’

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[verwijderd] 29 oktober 2021 11:35

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North Korea tells starving citizens to eat less till 2025

North Korea is telling its hungry citizens to be prepared to eat less for a few years.

Pyongyang, which closed its Sino-Korea border early last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, said there is only a slim chance of it reopening before 2025. This situation, which includes the restriction of trade, puts a significant pinch on the country of 25 million where people are already starving to death because of skyrocketing food prices, according to Radio Free Asia.

“The food situation right now is already clearly an emergency, and the people are struggling with shortages. When the authorities tell them that they need to conserve and consume less food until 2025 … they can do nothing but feel great despair,” an unnamed resident of the northwestern border city of Sinuiju told the outlet this month.

North Korea is led by Kim Jong-Un, who has been looking slimmer in recent months. The country has blamed the pandemic, natural disasters, and U.S. and U.N. sanctions for its inability to provide for its people, according to a Voluntary National Review submitted to the United Nations.

The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization projected that North Korea will be short 860,000 tons of food this year, which is roughly two months of consumption.

Trade between China and North Korea has begun to pick back up in recent months but only at a fraction of pre-COVID-19 levels, according to Reuters. Exports from China to North Korea rose to $22.5 million in August, which was an increase from prior months but significantly behind the $219 million in August 2019.

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[verwijderd] 29 oktober 2021 12:24

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Regime Noord-Korea treedt nog harder op: doodstraf voor soap of muziek

Kim Jong-Un heeft in het hermetisch afgesloten Noord-Korea een nieuwe wet ingevoerd die invloeden van buitenaf met harde straffen moet beperken. Een teken aan de wand dat het regime van de Noord-Koreaanse leider zich kwetsbaar voelt, zegt hoogleraar Koreastudies Remco Breuker van de Universiteit Leiden.

Kunt u uitleggen wat voor wet dit is?

"Dit is een uitbreiding van een wet die al langer geldt. Dat is een wet die specifiek Zuid-Koreaanse producten verbiedt en die inmiddels in bredere zin geldt voor alles wat in het buitenland wordt geproduceerd. Hierbij worden nu de straffen verzwaard en is de lijst van dingen die niet mogen verder uitgebreid."

Om wat voor producten gaat het dan?

"Het gaat om werkelijk álles. Maar je moet in de praktijk vooral denken aan films, soaps en muziek. Daar is de meeste vraag naar. Over het algemeen zijn het Zuid-Koreaanse series, die men kan verstaan. Ze worden verspreid op dvd's en usb-sticks, die weer worden binnengesmokkeld vanuit China. Overigens óók door de elite, iedereen doet het."

Welke straffen staan hierop?

"De wet wordt soms een tijdlang streng gehandhaafd. Je kunt dan naar een strafkamp gestuurd worden of zelfs terechtgesteld worden bij het verspreiden van grote hoeveelheden van bijvoorbeeld Zuid-Koreaanse popmuziek."

Kim Jong-un wil zo buitenlandse invloeden tegenhouden. Lukt hem dat ook?

"Ja, dat lukt hem. Maar niet voor 100 procent. Het is niet zo dat de bevolking niets weet van wat er zich afspeelt in het buitenland. Maar er is te weinig bruikbare informatie om ervoor te zorgen dat ze zich echt andere dingen gaan voorstellen, zoals een andere regering bijvoorbeeld."

Zuid-Koreaans kapsel verboden

Volgens de Daily NK, een nieuwssite in Zuid-Korea die over Noord-Korea schrijft op basis van lokale anonieme bronnen, gaat het niet alleen om wat mensen kijken. Kim Jong-un wil namelijk een einde maken aan buitenlandse taal, kapsels en kleding.

Drie tieners zouden onlangs naar een strafkamp gestuurd zijn omdat ze hun haar hadden geknipt als hun K-popidolen, hun broekspijpen boven de enkels hadden opgerold en liedjes meezongen.

www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/buitenland/ar...

[verwijderd] 29 oktober 2021 16:44

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Kim Jong-Un 'urges starving North Koreans to eat black swans to tackle food crisis'

Government propaganda has branded the meat "delicious" and said it is “an exceptional health food of the 21st century with a unique taste and extremely high nutritional value”

Starving North Koreans have been told to eat black swans in a major drive as the country battles chronic food shortages.

Kim Jong-Un's regime has branded the meat "delicious" and claiming it offers "medicinal value".

It comes as a new duck farm is opened on the secretive state's east coast in response to a food crisis gripping the nation.

Black swan has been branded “an exceptional health food of the 21st century with a unique taste and extremely high nutritional value” in government propaganda.

North Korean state media claimed that newly developed industrial scale breeding would help improve people's lives.

"Black swan meat is delicious and has medicinal value," the ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun said on Monday.

Research into breeding the ornamental birds for food began in early 2019, and authorities have told schools, factories and businesses to grow food and raise fish and other animals to increase self-sufficiency, according to NK News.

"The solution is meant to address both the failure of large-scale farming to provide adequate food supplies to the whole country and more recent government COVID-19-related restrictions that have largely blocked food and other imports since early 2020," wrote Colin Zwirko, NK News senior analytic correspondent.

A new centre for rearing black swans was opened on the country's east coast by key Kim aide Ri Jong Nam, chief secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea.

International observers say North Korea's food and economic situation is perilous and there are signs that it is increasing trade and receiving large shipments of humanitarian aid via China.

South Korea's intelligence agency told a closed-door parliamentary hearing yesterday that Kim had issued orders calling for every grain of rice to be secured and all-out efforts devoted to farming.

But the spy agency assessed that this harvest may be better than last year's because of sunnier weather, and it said North Korea was taking steps to reopen its border with China and Russia in coming months.

In June Kim told officials in the hermit state: "The people's food situation is now getting tense as the agricultural sector failed to fulfil its grain production plan due to the damage by typhoon last year."

In July the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization said the 2021 growing season appeared to be off to a good start, but a new report this week by a U.S.-based think-tank said data gathered by satellite point to a yield that falls short of an average or good harvest.

"While not yet a crisis of famine proportions, the negative trend, combined with external factors such as low yields in the previous year and flood damage to the northeastern croplands and crop transport infrastructure, aggravate the food insecurity in the country," the Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a report released earlier this month.

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[verwijderd] 30 oktober 2021 08:18

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Kim Jong-Un asks North Koreans to eat less until 2025 - ‘Telling us to starve to death'

Kim Jong-Un sparked despair in North Korea after his authorities asked the people to prepare for four years of food scarcity, a recent report claims.

Pyongyang has closed all borders and has forbidden all its regular imports of goods from China since the start of the pandemic in early 2020 to the extent that food is lacking in the country. Last April, authorities warned the population to prepare for an economic situation worse than the Arduous March, the Korean name for the 1994-1998 famine that killed millions, as many as ten percent of the country by some estimates.

Radio Free Asia (RFA) managed to contact two anonymous sources in North Korea who said the situation is “an emergency”.

“Two weeks ago, they told the neighbourhood watch unit meeting that our food emergency would continue until 2025,” a source from the northwestern border city of Sinuiju said.

Pyongyang has closed all borders and has forbidden all its regular imports of goods from China since the start of the pandemic in early 2020 to the extent that food is lacking in the country. Last April, authorities warned the population to prepare for an economic situation worse than the Arduous March, the Korean name for the 1994-1998 famine that killed millions, as many as ten percent of the country by some estimates.

Radio Free Asia (RFA) managed to contact two anonymous sources in North Korea who said the situation is “an emergency”.

“Two weeks ago, they told the neighbourhood watch unit meeting that our food emergency would continue until 2025,” a source from the northwestern border city of Sinuiju said.

“Authorities emphasized that the possibility of reopening customs between North Korea and China before 2025 was very slim.

“The food situation right now is already clearly an emergency, and the people are struggling with shortages.

www.express.co.uk/news/world/1512696/...

[verwijderd] 31 oktober 2021 14:35

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Kim Jong-Un orders enlargement of department that screens new strategic and tactical weapons

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly ordered a strengthening of the “expertise” of the department screening strategic and tactical weapons.

The order comes as North Korea continues to focus on developing nuclear weapons.

According to a Daily NK source in the North Korean military on Wednesday, the “special order” in Kim’s name was handed down during a meeting of the party committee of the Korean People’s Army on Oct. 23.

The meeting credited the Ministry of Defense’s Weapons Bureau for its “excellent contributions” over the last decade during the screening process all weapons systems must undergo prior to deployment. This means that not only did the bureau properly test weapon capabilities during the screening process, but also committed no major detectable errors in deploying the weapons according to the circumstances of each unit.

Rather than rewarding those involved for their contributions, however, he ordered that their duties be bolstered. That is to say, he ordered that the “department that made the excellent contributions be enlarged and reorganized.”

This indicates Kim’s desire to quickly modernize and diversify weapons and launch systems to build North Korea’s self-defense capacity.

North Korea has been advancing its weapon systems under Kim. In particular, the country recently tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLMB) and conducted last month four test launches of new missile systems, including a long-range cruise missile, a train-launched ballistic missile, a hypersonic missile and a surface-to-air missile.

The order also reflects a perceived need to push the modernization of the country’s arsenal to strengthen its “nuclear deterrent” as called for during the Eighth Party Congress at the start of the year.

Worsening living conditions due to the protracted closure of North Korea’s borders in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have had an impact, too. This means the order reflects the authorities’ intention to break through the country’s difficulties by strengthening national defense.

North Korea may also use the order as a propaganda point a decade in the future, much as it did at the recent Defense Development Exhibition when it pointed to the “re-founding of the military during Kim Jong Un’s first 10 years” as an accomplishment.

The Ministry of Defense’s Weapons Bureau responded to Kim’s order by jumping to work. It has decided to divide its general screening department for weapon testing into six sections specializing in individual weapon systems. It also plans to onboard many new technical specialists.

More specifically, the bureau plans to evaluate and select leading defense industry technicians and managers from research centers, universities and other workplaces by the end of November. It will then give the new hires three months of practical training in cooperation with related sectors.

Screening Department of the Weapons Bureau of the Ministry of Defense: This department carries out the vital final testing of weapon systems that have already undergone research (by R&D institutions such as the Academy of National Defense Science), prototyping, simulations, production and test launches.

In particular, weapons and equipment passed in tests by the Military Industries Department must pass a final vetting by the Screening Department of the Weapons Bureau before being deployed in the field.

www.dailynk.com/english/kim-jong-un-o...

[verwijderd] 1 november 2021 09:50

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‘STARVE TO DEATH’: Kim Jong-Un ordered North Koreans to eat less food until 2025

The North Korean government has asked its citizens to watch what they eat until 2025. That’s when the country expects to reopen its border with China following the COVID-19 shutdown.

Citizens are already feeling the effects of the food shortages, as the nation’s food supply currently can’t meet the demand, according to Radio Free Asia . And let’s not forget the soaring prices of just about everything.

Kim Jong-Un’s ask, to eat less food and tighten their belts for at least another three years, is devastating to North Koreans who are already wondering how they’re going to see themselves through the winter.

“The food situation right now is already clearly an emergency, and the people are struggling with shortages,” a source told RFA.

“When the authorities tell them that they need to conserve and consume less food until 2025 … they can do nothing but feel great despair.”

The border between North Korea and China has been closed since January 2020, as a precautionary measure against the spread of the coronavirus.

The nation’s economy, however, has suffered significantly, with prices of everyday items going through the roof as the demand has far exceeded the supply.

Earlier this year, Kim Jong-Un instructed the public to start growing their own crops and be more self-reliant, despite severe flooding and droughts ruining vital crops in 2020 and 2021.

“They say that telling us to endure hardship until 2025 is the same as telling us to starve to death.”

torontosun.com/news/world/starve-to-d...

[verwijderd] 1 november 2021 10:07

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Is cannibalism common in North Korea?

Three people in North Korea were reported to have been executed for selling or eating human flesh in 2006. Further reports of cannibalism emerged in early 2013, including reports of a man executed for killing his two children for food. There are competing claims about how widespread cannibalism was in North Korea.

[verwijderd] 2 november 2021 17:44

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Kim Jong Bun: North Korean dictator tucks into Big Macs specially flown in from China.

Kim Jong-Un urged North Koreans to eat SWANS as food shortages cripple rogue state. Not my taste says Kim Jong-Un while eating his Big Macs.

Bijlage:

[verwijderd] 4 november 2021 07:53

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Heard of 'Kimjongunism'? That's North Korea's brand new doctrine, coined by Kim Jong-un

In an attempt to shed the shadow of his predecessors, Kim Jong-Un has ordered authorities to promote the doctrine of 'Kimjongunism,' as well as remove paintings of his father and grandparents.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, 37, has taken down portraits of the country's venerated founder, Kim Il-sung and his predecessor as supreme leader, Kim Jong-il, from Pyongyang's main buildings.

www.wionews.com/world/heard-of-kimjon...

A Mao 4 november 2021 08:00

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Dat is wel bijzonder, geen goed teken voor Jung-un.
Soort wanhoopsdaad.

[verwijderd] 4 november 2021 13:35

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Why North Korea is the Hardest Country to Escape

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[verwijderd] 4 november 2021 13:41

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quote:
A Mao schreef op 4 november 2021 08:00:
Dat is wel bijzonder, geen goed teken voor Jung-un.
Soort wanhoopsdaad.

Kim Jong-Un verwijdert portretten en afbeeldingen van zijn vader en grootvader. Het is wachten totdat Kim Jong-Un zelf wordt verwijderd.

[verwijderd] 4 november 2021 16:40

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Kim Jong-Un is more worried about a military coup than a people’s revolt

Over the past eight years, the North Korean leader has made several changes to protect himself from a hypothetical coup.

It’s no secret that North Korea has suffered many economic blows this year, whether it be back-to-back typhoons, home-wrecking floods, economic sanctions or a significant drop in trade because of COVID-19 lockdown measures.

bron: NK PRO

[verwijderd] 5 november 2021 08:39

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The expert said: It is unlikely that the United Nations will lift sanctions on North Korea

The United Nations imposed trade sanctions after North Korea’s first nuclear test in 2006. Despite this, North Korea continued to conduct regular testing of rockets.

In recent weeks, the closed dictatorship has conducted at least five tests of rockets.

At the same time, Russia and China want the United Nations to lift trade sanctions against North Korea. Seems from a single draft the resolution that Russia and China are preparing for the UN Security Council.

Russia and China are North Korea’s only true friends, says Benjamin Katzif Silberstein, associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Institute.

“frustration”

Russia and China also want to start a dialogue between the United States and North Korea on nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula.

It’s about frustration that nothing has happened in the relationship between North Korea and the United States. Both Russia and China want the United States to come close to easing sanctions and negotiating with North Korea, according to Katzif Silberstein.

Russia and China also want to lift the ban on North Koreans working abroad and sending their salaries home.

They want to make sure that this workforce can keep coming.

What is the probability that the UN Security Council will make this decision?

– It’s as close as possible to zero. The US has a veto in the Security Council and the US position is very clear – they want to see concrete documents from North Korea so they can start dismantling their nuclear weapons program.

Western diplomats were sent home

Sweden recalled its diplomats from the embassy in Pyongyang in August last year. This came after the country imposed strict COVID-19 restrictions. The country was described as “close more or less”.

When will the diplomats return?

The regime is very concerned about what a possible outbreak of covid-19 could mean. You don’t have the resources to deal with it. I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t take a year, or maybe more.

Since foreigners have left Pyongyang, transparency is minimal. However, some information about the humanitarian situation is leaking out.

What we know from various sources inside North Korea is that the situation is difficult, but not catastrophic.

famine?

North Korea has been starving since the 1990s. It is rather a question of how strong the need is. It is quite clear that the situation has worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic and partly because of the sanctions.

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[verwijderd] 10 november 2021 17:42

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China's COVID-19 surge could set back Kim Jong-Un’s border reopening

New COVID-19 restrictions in the Chinese area bordering North Korea may have scuttled Kim Jong-Un’s plans to reopen a vital crossing that has been closed for almost two years.

The Chinese border city of Dandong this week asked residents not to leave unless necessary due to a flareup of COVID-19 cases in nearby Zhuanghe. “The risk of an epidemic spreading is very high,” Dandong disease control officials said in a statement Monday.

The statement came the same day that a North Korean train crossed into Dandong, South Korean broadcaster KBS reported, showing a video of what it said were carriage cars passing over a bridge between the neighbors. And it was now unclear whether North Korean trains would be able to return anytime soon, the NK News website reported, citing Dandong residents.

The closed border has weighed on North Korea’s economy, with Kim making rare admissions of the country’s difficulties in recent months. Reopening it could take pressure off of him to return to stalled nuclear disarmament talks with the U.S., where the Biden administration is dangling the prospects financial rewards in exchange for steps to wind down its atomic arsenal.

With his impoverished country at particular risk from outbreaks, Kim took a hard line against travel to China, closing checking points in the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan. In recent weeks, satellite imagery has indicated increased activity in recent weeks at the crossings, NK News said.

There were indications that preparations to resume train operations between the North Korea and China were in their final stages, the Yonhap news agency said, citing an unnamed Unification Ministry official in Seoul. It was still unclear whether North Korea had opened its border, Yonhap added.

This comes as China pushes on with stringent curbs to disrupt the coronavirus’s domestic transmission, suggesting it won’t break away from its “Covid-zero” strategy anytime soon.

Kim’s decision to shut borders likely sent the country’s sanctions-hit economy last year into its biggest contraction since the 1990s, according to Fitch Solutions and data from the Bank of Korea in Seoul. It also has caused political strains as home, leaving the economy around 9% smaller than when Kim took power a decade ago with a pledge to improve people’s living standards.

Trade with China plunged about 80% last year, dealing a bigger blow to North Korea than international sanctions to punish it for its nuclear weapons program, according to a trade association in Seoul. The downward slide has continued into this year with trade between the two dropping to about $185 million from January to September, about a third of what it was a year earlier, lawmaker Ha Tae-keung of the opposition People Power Party told reporters after a briefing by the spy agency about two weeks ago.

The pandemic has only increased North Korea’s isolation. Foreign aid organizations have been largely thwarted from getting into the country to deliver humanitarian assistance due to Pyongyang’s worries about the operations bringing in COVID-19.

Kim meanwhile, has shunned offers of vaccines through the Covax program backed by the World Health Organization, apparently because it’s unwilling to follow the organization’s instructions and rules. North Korea has said it had no cases of COVID-19, but officials from the U.S., Japan and others highly doubt the claim.

North Korea’s propaganda machine, meanwhile, has tried to hammer home that Kim is making sure that COVID-19 doesn’t take root in the country and cracking the whip on cadres to keep them vigilant on virus prevention. The state’s official Korean Central News Agency added to the message Tuesday and reported authorities are “further intensifying mass epidemic prevention work to thoroughly block the inroads of the pandemic and get rid of any possibilities of the virus’ spread.”

www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/11/10/...

[verwijderd] 12 november 2021 11:19

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Kim Jong-Un’s long public absence sparks fresh rumours about his health

Kim Jong-Un’s longest public absence in seven years has sparked fresh rumours that the North Korean leader is unwell.

The last time he was seen by the public was 30 days ago, when he appeared on state media during coverage of a missile exhibition in Pyongyang.

At the time, observers commented on the 37-year-old’s significant weight loss, leading some to speculate that he has been on a new health regime.

But this latest absence has brought old speculation back to the surface that Kim Jong-Un is actually in poor health.

Earlier this year, rumours swirled that North Korea’s “Supreme Leader” was unwell with coronavirus, whilst other reports speculated he was close to death’s door after heart surgery.

Other reports suggested he had fled Pyongyang for a resort town because people in his inner circle had tested positive for COVID-19.

North Korea News reports that he may currently be in seclusion at his getaway properties - a beach house on the east coast and a lakeside mansion not far from Pyongyang.

The outlet reports that he has taken eight breaks of at least two weeks since January.

With the exception of 2020, it’s the most breaks the North Korean leader has taken since he came into power a decade ago.

Reports that Kim had heart problems began to emerge in April after a three-week absence from public activity.

The internet exploded with rumours that he had died.

When he did make a reappearance, he used an electric cart to get around during a fertiliser factory visit.

Conspiracy theorists were taken aback by photographs taken during this visit, claiming a body double was standing in his place.

Other rumours included that he had lap-band surgery to reduce his weight.

It’s believed that Kim has lost almost 20kg this year - after a life of chain-smoking and a reported cheese obsession.

But according to North Korean state media, the mysterious leader is in good health.

The public will get to see for themselves on December 17, when he is next due to appear to visit his father’s mausoleum on the anniversary of his death.

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[verwijderd] 12 november 2021 17:34

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Where Is Kim Jong Un? North Korea Dictator Rumored To Be Sick Again

Kim had taken eight breaks from public activities since January of this year. His absence during a national celebration in mid-April fueled rumors that he may be in a coma or may have died following a botched heart surgery.

North Korea has yet to announce any political events in the coming weeks that would require the leader’s presence. However, he is expected to make a public appearance on Dec. 17 to commemorate his father’s death anniversary.

[verwijderd] 14 november 2021 15:28

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North Korea Threatened By Famine; Sends Delegation To China For Emergency Supplies

North Korea's border with China was shut after a spike in COVID-19 cases, hindering Pyongyang's market economy, which majorly depends on Chinese commerce.

An unofficial delegation from North Korea went to visit China's Dandong, a few days ago, in order to seek emergency supplies as the recently reopened border between the two nations was closed again due to a surge in coronavirus infections, according to a media report. On November 1, after a long halt, railway services had resumed between Dandong, China, and Sinuiju, North Korea, across the Yalu River.

However, the service was shut down again eight days later because of the shutdown initiated in China's Dandong due to a fresh rise in COVID-19 infections, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported, quoting sources. The day when the border was closed, during the same period the unofficial team from North Korea travelled to China seeking emergency supplies.

According to the sources, amid the economic crisis in North Korea, the team asked Chinese authorities in Dandong for the supply of cooking oil and spices, building supplies for construction purposes, and a variety of fabrics. RFA quoted a Chinese inhabitant of Korean descent from Dandong as saying, “Two train cars crossed the bridge on November 8 from North Korea, and at first we thought it was just a maintenance team coming to inspect the condition of the railroad connection between Sinuiju and Dandong because we heard they'd be coming.”

The source went on to say that in that two train cars, the railway repair team was in the lead vehicle, while the second compartment was filled with three unauthorised Pyongyang delegations. He revealed that they had come to ask for emergency supplies.

Harvest in North Korea dismal, sparks fear of famine

North Korea's border with China was shut after a spike in COVID-19 cases, hindering Pyongyang's market economy, which majorly depends on Chinese commerce to keep it sustained. Furthermore, a dismal harvest in North Korea has sparked fears that the nation would suffer a famine identical to the one that ravaged the country in the 1990s.

According to Radio Free Asia, with 42% of the population already malnourished, an inadequate output of food grains might bring the country to the edge of calamity. Furthermore, many have speculated that North Korea's iron-fist dictator Kim Jong-Un, with his unrelenting desire for nuclear weapons, may deprive the nation of critical international assistance.

Meanwhile, North Korea has lately reopened its marine lines in an attempt to resurrect its stuttering economy. As per The Korea Herald, leader Kim Jong-Un had recently ordered that almost all systems should be organised in accordance with the COVID-19 criteria in order to begin trading with Beijing. North Korea has closed the China border and other important crossings, causing the country's economy to stutter. The most recent event, however, occurred when the Supreme Leader failed to rebuild the country using domestic resources.

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Air France-KLM	+4,18%
FASTNED	+3,00%
RANDSTAD NV	+2,65%

Pharming	-9,63%
ASMI	-6,10%
Avantium	-6,01%
PostNL	-5,84%
TomTom	-3,31%

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