North Korea orders troops to steal food from farms

Red States:
The communist nation of North Korea is so without food that it can’t even feed its troops. Thus North Korean officials have ordered troops to steal the meager scraps of food rural farmers have grown for themselves.

According to DailyNK, this order to raid farms comes weeks after the North Korean military was given a month off to scrounge for food to feed themselves with. The shortage of food is due to a sub-par harvest, and farmers who didn’t deliver the quota given to it by the North Korean government will now find themselves giving up food for their private use.

“We are suffering because collective farms in our region did not have a good harvest last year and so we were unable to fulfill the mandatory quota for military provisions. All individuals who weren’t able to meet the demands have been receiving additional assignments since the very beginning of January,” the anonymous source told the DailyNK.

Another source told the DailyNK that this isn’t necessarily an uncommon occurrance, and that government confiscation of food during a season as “the time when thieves rear their ugly heads.”

“Sometime in spring, the collective farms that are behind on their quotas will have some of their constituents provide frozen potatoes, which are processed by peeling and drying before presentation to the authorities. But many also call the season the ‘time when thieves (in this case, the farm authorities) rear their ugly heads,'” he added.

But while government confiscation of food is typical, the tactics used have never seem so desperate....
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There is something about communism that causes a crop failure.  One of the problems is that like slavery all the incentives are negative as this story proves.  Add to that the countries investments have been in building nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles and luxury items for the leaders.  The weapons program has led to sanctions which make importing goods to make up the difference nearly impossible.  Then there are the ghost boats floating ashore in Japan with skeletons of fishing crews who were not able to produce their government quotas.

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