We heard about the rabbit breeding initiative for soldiers, but - according to South Korea's Chosun Ilbo - the problem is more widespread than just the army. The whole of North Korea, it seems, is struggling to feed itself:
The North Korean regime has ordered people to conserve food as fears of a famine in the isolated country grow.
The regime has apparently been unable to hand out food rations in Pyongyang since April, and people are said to be starving even in the capital.
According to the summary of a lecture for the Socialist Women's Union of Korea delivered in the second quarter of this year, members "must wage a strong struggle for food conservation" and "thoroughly stamp out the waste of food by going on an eating spree in the name of various causes or gaudy ceremonial rituals that do not fit the socialist way of life."
The regime also advised Pyongyang residents to cut rice consumption by diversifying their diets to noodles, bread and pan-fried food as well as wild greens.
Wild greens? Like, um...grass?
If they're starving in the capital - the showpiece of Juche Korea under the mighty Kim dynasty - the conditions elsewhere don't bear thinking about.
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