Opinion Forum

Should We Feed the Malnourished North Koreans?

March 30th, 2012

By Dan Miller No, not now. Due to the impending launch by the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of (North) Korea (DPRK) of a “weather satellite,” the United States has “suspended” food aid recently offered in exchange for a promise by the DPRK to refrain from further nuclear and missile tests. The impending launch should come as […]

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Tags: DPRK, food aid, foreign policy, hunger, missile, North Korea, satellite
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Will North Korea Collapse? (Part Two)

December 19th, 2011

By Dan Miller The situation in North Korea remains cloudy but some information has become available. (Also read Dan Miller’s PJ Media article from November titled “Will North Korea Collapse?“) North Korea’s Dear Leader Kim Jong-il is dead at the age of sixty-nine. The spin by the North Korean media is that he died of […]

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Tags: death, food aid, Kim Jong-il, missiles, North Korea, nuclear, succession
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Life Is Really Rotten in the United States

June 2nd, 2011

By Dan Miller Or maybe it’s all a conspiracy. According to a global happiness index allegedly from North Korea, …the country and its allies are the most cheerful countries in the world…. Shanghaiist reports that North Korea’s Chosun Central Television recently came out with a happiness index compiled by local researchers. Their findings? China is […]

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Tags: China, DPRK, food aid, happiness, North Korean, satire, U.S., Weiner
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North Korea Grows Lots of Poppies but Insufficient Food

May 12th, 2011

By Dan Miller North Korea grows lots of poppies but insufficient food. Jimmy Carter has no comment. This is one of several recent articles dealing with North Korea’s increased use of slave labor from its massive and growing political prison camps to grow poppies in order to make heroin to export for hard currency. It […]

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Tags: DPRK, export, food aid, heroin, North Korea, poppies, prisoners, starvation
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North Korea and Food for Thought

May 2nd, 2011

By Dan Miller The New York Times editorialized on April 29th that since “food aid is not a political tool,” the United States and South Korea should give some to North Korea so that fewer innocents will starve. To its credit, the leading daily refrains from suggesting that it’s all our fault because we have […]

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Tags: diversion, DPRK, food aid, North Korea, reform, South Korea, starvation
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