North Korean Starvation
There are many sites indicating hardship of North Korean citizens:
Hidden Footage from Inside North Korea: Starvation and Ange
http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2011/01/25/hidden-footage-from-inside-north-korea-starvation-and-anger/
Starvation Risk Seen in Korea
MARCH 26, 2011
BY EVAN RAMSTAD
SEOUL—North Korea's government food distribution system will run dry in May and put one-quarter of the country's 24 million residents at risk of starvation, the U.N. World Food Program said in an assessment that may influence whether the U.S. and other countries provide assistance to the country.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704425804576221812983125224.html
North Korean Children Facing Starvation
11:47am UK, Thursday October 06, 2011
Holly Williams, Sky correspondent
Food shortages are leaving many children in North Korea severely malnourished, with aid groups warning that some could face starvation without access to food.
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16083830
Tales of starvation and death in North Korea
22 September 2010 Last updated at 10:45 GMT
North Korea's ruling Workers' Party has announced its first major conference in decades.
It could see the nation's reclusive leader, Kim Jong-il, appoint one of his sons to a key position, paving the way for his eventual succession.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11389824
GLOBAL HEALTH -- December 8, 2011 at 11:50 AM EDT
Aid Groups: Children in North Korea at Risk for Starvation this Winter
Malnourished children line the floor of a pediatric ward of Rinsan County Hospital in flood-affected North Hwanghae province in North Korea. Photo courtesy visiting U.S. NGOs.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/12/international-aid-groups-say-children-and-vulnerable-populations-in-north-korea-at-risk-for-starvati.html
There are some analysis on Korean unification:
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009, 9:37 P.M. ET
Study Sees Gains in Korean Unification
By EVAN RAMSTAD
SEOUL -- A united South and North Korea could boast an economy larger than France, Germany and possibly Japan by the middle of the century, according to a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. study that challenges conventional wisdom about unification.
Since the reunification of West and East Germany 20 years ago, South Korean leaders and economists have convinced many people here that reuniting with North Korea would be costly and disruptive. In the latest gloomy forecast, a government think tank last month said the tax-burden ratio, or proportion of tax revenue to gross domestic product, would need to rise by two percentage points and stay at that level for 60 years to pay for unification.
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Today, South Korea's GDP is about $800 billion and North Korea's is believed to be around $20 billion, though no data has been collected in the North since the 1960s. Some economists say they believe its output is considerably less, while others note that most estimatesleave out the North's well-known illicit activities such as producing narcotics and counterfeing currency.
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Recent surveys show unification will be a hard sell in South Korea. In one done by the state-funded National Unification Advisory Council in March, only 45% of respondents said unification is very important.
—Jaeyeon Woo contributed to this article.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125353016156627479.html
Prospects from Korean Unification
Authored by Colonel, Australian Army David Coghlan. | April 2008
Throughout the 1990s, predictions of Korean reunification were rife. Since then, enthusiasm for such predictions have faded, and although the underlying assumption of reunification remains, forecasts of when and how this will occur have been more subdued...
As such, with the current course of events, China holds and will do so for the foreseeable future the initiative to influence events on the Korean Peninsula. By underwriting North Korea, China secures its strategic buffer, allowing a stable environment in which trade and investment with South Korea can flourish, while at the same time and at the expense of the United States, Beijing gains kudos and influence among South Koreans. However, the wildcard of war, which would most likely result in consolidation of American influence over a unified Korea, is Beijing's worst scenario...
This situation has come about because of Washington?s declining influence on the peninsula primarily due to its inconsistent policy approach toward Korea, and on the reunification issue in particular. Conversely, Chinese Korean policy appears successful to the extent that should events continue on their current course, the United States faces a distinct possibility of a unified Korea tilting toward Beijing...
The current Japanese approach to Korean reunification and beyond is counterproductive to Tokyo?s long-term objectives involving Korea. This can only be resolved through policy change that allows Japan to reconcile with its history and to effectively address Korean concerns in this area. Japan should then embark upon a range of initiatives toward Korea that seeks to build trust between the two countries, including a commitment to finance a substantial amount toward the cost of the post-unification rebuild of Korea. However, Japan has to be realistic and hedge its bets should a unified Korea lean toward China. Tokyo needs to actively pursue a closer alliance with the Washington...
Meanwhile Russia is quietly working at regaining lost influence on the peninsula to ensure its own security and position itself to take advantage of significant economic opportunities that reunification of the peninsula would present. As such, Moscow supports the status quo and, should reunification occur, Russia would prefer, as a hedge against China, a unified Korea that tilts toward Washington...
Such a commitment should include a pledge of significant financial support toward the cost of rebuilding a unified Korea; this is one of the few areas where China will be unable to compete with the United States. If successful, such policies can demonstrate to the Korean people that the United States, rather than China, offers them the best strategic partnership for a post-unified Korea. However, given current prospects, this will not be easy.
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/summary.cfm?q=859
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elisabeth-braw/this-26-year-old-is-the-o_b_162256.html
(to be continued...)
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There are two grave underlying or hidden political movements in Japan.
One is linked with North Korea. It is also related to South Korea and China. They have a complicated mind set against Japan. Japan is bigger and stronger than any force in Asia except the U.S. Even China's economic success was only possible by relying on Japan. Yet, they know they can get profits to pretend challengers to Japan. Or some of them have found an only effective strategy in pretending a challenger against Japan to get profits in a hugely unbalanced relationship with Japan.
Another is a kind of nationalist Japanese who abuse Japanese sense of superiority over Chinese and Koreans. They always try to arouse Japanese sentiments and anger against rude and selfish Koreans and Chinese. They try to look strong supporters for the Imperial Family. But they can be divided into three: pro-American, anti-American, and opportunistic.
But ordinary citizens find a kind of gangsters in both the movements. And it is suspected that the same dark force is behind both the movements. If you do not respect a kind of revolutionary Japanese who are tied up with anti-Japanese Koreans and Chinese, you might face a violent attack of a kind of terror. If you do not respect the "so-called Japanese nationalists," you might face a violent attack of a kind of terror.
That is why most of the Japanese people do not like pro-Korean/pro-Chinese movement and the so-called selfish nationalist/imperial movement.
For example, some stupid so-called nationalist calls any Japanese they dislike "Korean." Any stupid nationalistic Japanese who calls a Japanese "Korean" should leave Japan leaving his nationality of being Japanese.
Luk 12:16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
Luk 12:17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
Luk 12:18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Luk 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Luk 12:20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?