(In March 2011, the World Food Programme estimated that 6 million North Koreans needed food aid and a third of children were chronically malnourished or stunted.)
Not minding the intense saber rattling between the US and North Korea, experts
told Business Insider that all intelligence coming from the Hermit Kingdom is
showing that it’s not ready for war and any act of war will be a catastrophe to
it.
"Yes there's a lot of statements going back and
forth that are escalating tensions, but in the real world on the ground in
North Korea, and I suspect in South Korea, life goes on," Joel Wit, a
senior fellow at US-Korea Institute who previously worked on North Korea policy
at the State Department, said on a call with reporters organized by 38 North.
.
Wit said satellite imagery of North Korea just wasn't
showing the drumbeat of war playing out for normal citizens. Foreigners haven't
fled. Workers haven't been pulled from factories, and even the media remains
calm and focused on the economy.
Also, Kim Jong Un the North Korean Leader may look like
he’s ready to fight within hours, has a very difficult timing.
"We're now entering the season in North Korea where
we're going to see the starting of harvest," Wit said. If North Korea had
to go into defensive lockdown, he added, there would be a "serious impact
on food collection, and then food distribution, then after that, food
availability."
So Kim faces what looks to be a fair choice: continue a
conflict he is ready to lose, and let his people starve, or continue with normal
business, while maintaining his usual aggressive propaganda.
(source: yahoo, edited by Increase Chisom)
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