Kim Jong Il's Leadership during the famine 

i think it because russia told it to UN because Russia knew NK can't afford food (NK got free food from soviet union before they collapsed)

@@MRFBI-zd3nz north Korea traded for food and fertilizer with the USSR. When the USSR wasn't around to trade with the DPRK anymore, they could not import food nor fertilizer from anybody else because of sanctions. The north of Korea has naturally low arable land and this famine was caused by extreme natural disasters, so it's obvious that they needed imports, but were blocked by sanctions from getting them, which caused the famine.

@@CommunistBotI thought that “glorious” North Korea was self-sufficient. Also, China, South Korea, and the US among others sent food to “glorious” North Korea.

@@stevepipenger4651 Self sufficiency doesn't mean "no trade". All US aid is performative while the sanctions remain. It simply seeks to make the DPRK dependent on the US, for the US to threaten to remove food aid when the DPRK does something that the US doesn't like.

@@CommunistBot If you were in the glorious DPRK you and your whole family would be imprisioned because you' re on youtube which is "anti-socialist"

For his cataracts

Jason Mcintyre he needs only few spoons of rice.unlike ordinary people.

Great Leader Kim il Sung 😂 okay buddy

​@@lookoi9363 I can survive on one ricefull of hand a week

He apparently was the liquor producer Hennessy's highest paying customer 😅

He started losing weight during the arduous March

Yes, not many "evil Westerners" (sarcasm) realise that when the "Great Leader" points to the factory, production will increase by 241%! Socialism's finest!

It’s like seeing Musollini’s spirit just guiding them on how to become a better dictator based on his experience when he was alive

His pointing, combined with other hand gestures, is credited with bringing the changes that saved 7.58 million North Korean lives.

"Although they're too hungry to stand up, they tighten their belts by their machines asking for work to do."

Emi Sumida - yes, that line got me...😢

"The workers are living and working like DYING BIRDS"... (°¬°;)

You can get a similar looking outfit from Africa which is called a safari suit (it is nicely paired with an ascot to cover the neck)

Jaxon Mattox You can get a similar looking outfit from Africa which is called a safari suit (it is nicely paired with an ascot to cover the neck)

Throughout history patriotic people have sacrificed themselves for their leaders , the logic is simple , if the leader perishes then who will lead the nation and who will ensure the glorious victory over the enemy.

@@surendramumgai631 thawed sounds stupid af. I'll feed my kids and wife before and dbag leader.

@@surendramumgai631 his deputy

A well fed mind is better at leading the nation, and all it takes from the people is a negligible amount of calories per person.

​@@CommunistBotnice to see you again.

As BR Myers (an expert on North Korean propaganda) has frequently argued, NK doesn't invent facts or lie outright as often as other communist dictatorships. Instead, NK spins and distorts true facts to their advantage. For example, Stalin and Mao would lie outright and say that the annual harvests were wildly successful, even as people were starving to death. The Kim Regime, on the other hand, acknowledges that their people are hungry and suffering, but blames it on outsiders or foreign governments (the US, South Korea, Japan, the UN, etc.) instead of taking responsibility for their own greed and incompetence.

Alinsky Doctrine: Accuse others of everything that you’re doing yourself. Think the Biden’s and the Deep and their Collusion delusion.

@@CytotoxinK north Korea traded for food and fertilizer with the USSR. When the USSR wasn't around to trade with the DPRK anymore, they could not import food nor fertilizer nor agricultural machinery from anybody else because of sanctions. The north of Korea has naturally low arable land and this famine was caused by extreme natural disasters, so it's obvious that they needed imports, but were blocked by sanctions from getting them, which caused the famine. They have a very efficient food production and distribution system considering the circumstances imposed by the sanctions.

@@CommunistBot The sanctions were not aimed at food productions, but the military. NK simply transfered all ressources to the military so the regime might survive.

@@ABW941Then why do sanctions deliberately harm food production and remove import?

They look so happy and enthusiastic even in their hardships.

Kim Jong Il reportedly drank like a fish until his last days. (No joke; the North Korean government was the single largest consumer of Hennessey Cognac in the world) He probably wore sunglasses to hide that his eyes were veiny and yellow from liver damage.

How do you know he is "hated"?

most people genuinely loved him even through the arduous march

In what country can you punch in the face the president of your country if he/she shows up to your door?

​@@user-bx7vu5cs8pShe assumes because all Western "thought" is about assuming based on commonplaces instilled by media propaganda.

Did you life under his regime?

+Warren Lauzon Hahahaha it's very far from being inactive kcnawatch.nknews.org/article/ba6s DPRK has greatly evolved since those years, we're in 2015 if you didn't notice ;)

jcm96 You failed to note who supplied that press release: "..Pyongyang, April 29, 2014 20:48 KST (KCNA)..". Not the most reliable source.

+Warren Lauzon And you think US press is more reliable?

jcm96 In the US I have thousands of sources. In the DPRK there is only one source - the government press.

+Warren Lauzon All of sources you have in the USA serve one only social class and a few of lobbies interested in prosecuting the expansionist, hegemonist and imperialist policy that has always characterized the USA. None of them say the truth, they just spread prepackaged "truths" that every American must learn and believe, otherwise it is a "foreigner spy agent". Those "truths", by the way, are easily refutable because of their falseness. Look for example at the story of the "mass distruction weapons" Saddam allegedly possessed: it was a lie unmasked in these years, but it was spread in order to make American people accept the invasion of Iraq. And the "drug possess" of Noriega? Or, more recently, the propaganda about Gaddafi "bombing its own people"? We can find a lot of examples proving that those thousands of sources tell the SAME lies with PRECISE purposes. And, by extension, that pluralism does not authomatically mean democracy.

That's because he was an "experienced drinker" of Hennessy and was a chain smoker like his father

His son is halfway there at a far younger age.

He was probably on amphetamines...

Snow is bright

No Kim Il sung is probably worse than both Jong Il and Jong Un. He created a communist country

@@chubby5188 - That comment of yours is pathetic! I am sure that South Korean leaders were as dictatorial as the North! So get a grip, chubby!

@@chubby5188 you realize they were talking about Kim Jong Il. And they are not evil.

The world DID contribute a lot of food aid to North Korea during the famine. But like *all* foreign aid given to dictatorships, it never actually reached the poor people. It instead went to the rich and powerful.

Do you have any source of documents proving that the world “provided” food to North Korea? And what evidence do you have to back up the statement “but it didn’t reach the ordinary people”

@@davidstrelec6065, read the book "Famine in North Korea" by Marcus Noland and Steph Haggard, which is widely considered to be the seminal book of the topic. (It was even praised by Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz) The UN gave several hundreds of thousands of TONS of food, fuel, medicine and other forms of humanitarian aid to North Korea EVERY YEAR during the late 1990s and early 2000s. (And the US was actually the single largest donor during several of those years) The reason so many people died is because the North Korean regime was diverting and embezzling that aid on a massive scale; they were either hording it for political loyalists, or selling it on the black market for profit. The amount of theft and abuse of humanitarian aid by the North Korean government was so severe that Doctors Without Borders quit their operations in North Korea in protest, and urged other humanitarian agencies to do the same. Also read the book "The Cleanest Race" by BR Myers, who is widely regarded as one of the best North Korea specialists in the world. Another reason why the North Korean government withheld so much aid from the people was to create a crisis in order to legitimize Kim Jong Il. North Korea's beloved founder, Kim Il Sung, had just died, and Kim Jong Il knew he didn't garner the same amount of loyalty and respect as his father did. (Many North Koreans regarded KJI as an effite and spoiled prince, and didn't consider him "leader material".) KJI calculated that if he starved enough of his people, but then blamed it on America, he could trick the people into flocking to him for comfort and protection. (Want proof? Just watch the entire video again!!)

The world helped, the army and the government stole the food from the people

jigrodrigues and you where there watching all that? Where is the humanity in you mister???

Boomers

SONGUN007 because the country would of his the millions of starving from you.

OK so just because you didn't personally see anyone starving doesn't mean it didn't happen. I mean it's not like this period of history isn't well-documented or anything. At least 6 different countries had to send food aid to North Korea...call it whatever you want but it's all the same thing.

That’s the dumbest comment I have ever read. You went to the capital and were escorted everywhere if you even went, your probably a liar or a fake account.

Correct @songun and @idon

SONGUN007 North Korean are super great people's.

False, there was the massive catastrophic natural disasters that killed a majority of farm land... The bombing during the war by the US bombers purposely destroyed dams/bridges and farmlands to starve the Koreans. The report on the bombing was describe as a nuclear bomb going off. The collapse of the Soviet Union destroyed the trade for all socialist countries and further isolating the DPRK. Yet through all this hardships and bloodshed, the DPRK has risen above what was expected of them and continuely following the socialist revolution in spite of the US imperialists say about them. Want to try again friend?

@@localdude3702 you can't deny the famine. Yes it was partly due to flooding and drought. Soviet union collapsed and couldn't provide crops to NK, also China faced food shortages, leaving NK to their "juche". Food was short and famine was widespread. Rations were cut and stopped altogether from most of the population. Food that the regime had was concentrated to the military and the upper class to avoid uprise.

@@localdude3702 "The bombing during the war by the US..." LOL shut up dude! The Vietnam War killed _way more people_ and _way more recently,_ and arguably involved the the use of chemical weapons (depending on what your opinions on Agent Orange are). And yet Vietnam didn't suffer a famine after the Vietnam War. Why? Because they rapidly _de_-collectivized their farms and allowed farmers to privately own their plots, which incentivized profit-motivated modernization of farming techniques and thus increased farm productivity. North Korea, on the other hand, insisted on sticking with their anachronistic collectivized farming system (which even the Cubans abandoned long ago) which meant that farmers couldn't earn any more from good harvests and thus demotivated them from improving their farming practices. That and the Kim Regime insisted on instituting standardized, uniform farming techniques across the entire country (as this video _proudly_ admits) with no regard for regional differences in soil quality, climatic conditions, etc. Regions that were ideal for growing wheat and potatoes were instructed to grow rice instead, which led to poorer harvests. Look up the interview with Edward Reed (a humanitarian and agricultural expert who actually worked in North Korea with the local authorities during the famine) on the Korea Now podcast. He describes in detail how North Korea systemically wrecked their agricultural system in the years _before_ the famine, and how they consistently refused to obey or accept any foreign advice on how to improve it afterward.

@@localdude3702 "The DPRK has risen above by continuing their _socialist revolution..."_ It's funny when Western leftists praise North Korea for upholding "socialism." In fact, the most successful and influential Western engagers and sympathizers of the DPRK (the ones who've actually managed to attract foreign business and investment to the country) have tended to say the exact opposite. They say _"No no, you have it all wrong! See, North Korea is slowly marketizing, so that's why we should drop sanctions and invest in North Korea (so we can help them transition to a capitalist economy)!"_ Foreign corporations and investors don't want to do business with a country where the state can expropriate their assets at will, so by praising North Korea for its "continuing socialist revolution," you are making it _less likely_ that they will ever want to do business with NK and thus hurting NK's chances at economic success LOL

@@localdude3702 Another thing; for decades, the DPRK has tried to woo South Korea into peacefully reunifying with them. (North Korea desperately wants to be liked by the South Koreans.) One of the ways it has sought to do this is by promising to respect South Korea's business/property rights and adopt capitalism if they reunify with NK. Whether or not NK is telling the truth is not important; it wants the South Koreans to believe that their assets will be safe in union with North Korea. So by praising North Korea for "continuing its socialist revolution" you contradict NK's own messaging to SK and make it less likely that the South Koreans will trust and believe them. (As well as help to scare foreign businesses away from ever wanting to invest in the country like I previously mentioned.) You think you're praising the DPRK, but your statements only help to sabotage and isolate them further LOL!

Obviously no

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