{"id":1268929,"date":"2022-02-03T12:23:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1268929"},"modified":"2022-02-03T17:38:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T22:38:34","slug":"north-korea-state-documentary-admits-food-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-state-documentary-admits-food-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea State Documentary Admits \u2018Food Crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorth-korea-state-documentary-admits-food-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1268929&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/3BC89137-FE3F-4586-8E93-3F4DC570B009_1_201_a-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\">A recent North Korean state documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/02\/03\/north-korea-food-crisis\/\"><span class=\"s1\">discussed<\/span><\/a> the nation\u2019s \u201cfood crisis\u201d in a reference to the poor situation of the citizens of North Korea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The film is around two hours long and \u201cis an annual production recapping the previous year\u2019s biggest achievements and praising leader Kim Jong Un. It showed Kim visiting housing complex projects in Pyongyang, holding leadership meetings and attending military parades,\u201d The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/02\/03\/north-korea-food-crisis\/\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The film was called \u201cThe Great Year of Victory 2021\u201d and was shown on Tuesday. It highlighted Kim\u2019s job on the economy of the nation. However, it noted that \u201cthe country\u2019s situation is more difficult than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The narrator of the documentary discussed a meeting where Kim talked about his worry that \u201cwhat is urgently needed in stabilizing the people\u2019s livelihood is to relieve the tension created by the food supply.\u201d He called for emergency actions for the \u201cfood crisis,\u201d stating that the country had started using its grain that had been for emergency use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Kim was also reportedly looking thinner than he has in the past throughout the documentary as the film showed times when he weighed more, as well as images that portrayed his recent weight loss. Last summer, the world <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/06\/10\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-weight\/\"><span class=\"s1\">noticed<\/span><\/a> as Kim looked thinner than usual after he hadn\u2019t made public appearances for several weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/asia\/east-asia\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-limping-b2004940.html\"><span class=\"s1\">Independent<\/span><\/a>, the narrator of the film commented on Kim\u2019s appearance, saying, \u201cHis body completely withered away, and he showed his motherly side by greatly suffering and worrying to realise the dreams of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Kim is also reportedly shown limping in the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/2022\/02\/kim-jong-un-completely-withered-as-he-suffered-for-the-people-state-tv-says\/\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a> by NK News:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>\u201c[Kim Jong Un] showed us his fatherly side by doggedly braving snow, rain and wind while taking on the fate of the nation and people like his own children,\u201d the documentary film\u2019s narrator said, as the camera showed a first-person view of a makeshift set of stairs on a rainy construction site Kim&nbsp;<\/i><span class=\"s2\"><i>visited in August<\/i><\/span><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/about-us\/\">NK News<\/a><\/span>, along with NK Pro, are \u201cindependent, privately owned specialist information sources that focus on North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Rachel Minyoung Lee, an expert on North Korea, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/02\/03\/north-korea-food-crisis\/\"><span class=\"s1\">told<\/span><\/a> the Post, \u201cI\u2019m not so sure, if we were living in Kim Jong Il\u2019s era, that it would\u2019ve been addressed at all,\u201d Lee said, referencing Kim\u2019s father. \u201cWe [now] see more explicit formulations of the reality on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">North Korea drastically shut down its borders during the pandemic and \u201cseverely restricted trade with China, its biggest economic partner, which has exacerbated a shortage of food, supplies and cash, hurting the country\u2019s most vulnerable, experts say,\u201d per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/02\/03\/north-korea-food-crisis\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Post<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Kim has also forced new policies that have put more restrictions on economic actions in the country, \u201cincluding intensifying crackdowns on people moving between provinces and the illegal use of cellphones, both of which have severely limited people\u2019s ability to trade food and goods,\u201d per the outlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/north-korea-documentary-shows-limping-kim-he-tackles-worst-ever-hardships-2022-02-01\/\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a> that North Korea has not confirmed that it has had any COVID-19 cases in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The food crisis isn\u2019t a new situation. In June, the Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/northkorea-food-shortage-kim\/2021\/06\/16\/fb745272-ce5a-11eb-a224-bd59bd22197c_story.html\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a> that Kim described the food circumstance in the country as \u201ctense,\u201d as was reported by state media at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cThe people\u2019s 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,\u201d Kim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/nkoreas-kim-says-food-situation-tense-due-pandemic-typhoons-2021-06-15\/\">said<\/a>, per Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>NK News reported that state media was not clear in the past about what was talked about at a small \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/2021\/06\/kim-jong-un-promises-economic-stabilization-at-meeting-of-party-officials\">consultative meeting<\/a>\u201d that took place in early June in Kim\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The narrator of the recent film, however, reportedly said Kim put forward \u201cimportant policy ideas in order to urgently stabilize the people\u2019s lives and the tense food distribution situation and overcome the current food crisis with an emergency policy\u201d during the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>NK News added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>North Korea\u2019s food crisis has been the subject of apparent censorship or debate among state propagandists, as it also didn\u2019t come up in initial print media reports on a June&nbsp;party plenum&nbsp;and was only later mentioned in a&nbsp;KCTV documentary&nbsp;about the plenum.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent North Korean state documentary discussed the nation\u2019s \u201cfood crisis\u201d in a reference to the poor situation of the citizens of North Korea.The film is around two hours long &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}