Kim Jong Un says climate change is crippling North Korea and the country needs an 'urgent' response

[OneCrazyDiamond]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has blamed climate change as one of the reasons for the country's ongoing food crisis and cataclysmic floods that have battered its northeast regions.

He called on his officials to enact an "urgent" response to the slew of disasters his regime is facing at a politburo meeting, according to state media KCNA on Thursday.

Kim stressed the need to improve North Korea's land management after floods destroyed bridges and homes on the country's east coast last month.

The "danger" of an "abnormal climate," he said, has risen in the last few years. Kim added that he wants officials to begin an "active and ambitious plan" to improve rivers, manage erosion control, maintain dykes, and start tide embankment projects as part of the country's regular Five-Year Plan.

He added that "disastrous weather is getting ever more pronounced worldwide" and that North Korea will be vulnerable to the change, per KCNA.

https://news.yahoo.com/kim-jong-un-says-climate-081219726.html


When North Korea is more sane the QOP

[rickford66]

1. He has the slave labor to do it.

[Backseat Driver]

5. "The strong make many. The weak make few. The dead make none."

Now where did I hear that??? Oh yeah, from the "cold, dead" hand, empty chair actor, Moses.

[Silent3]

18. Are you referring to Charleton Heston or Clint Eastwood?

"cold, dead" hand, Moses -> Heston
empty chair actor -> Eastwood

Unless there's some empty chair reference to Heston of which I am unaware.

[2naSalit]

2. Maybe if he steps down...

They could have aid. Their problem is of his and his father's making as well as the rest of the polluting humans. At least he's thinking about it.

[wyn borkins]

3. Kim Kan New Kit

Why doesn't he just nuke the weather into proper behavior, like his former lover suggested?

[Crunchy Frog]

4. Haven't they always had a food crisis? nt

[Klaralven]

10. Like most countries, they don't produce enough food for their population.

Since they strive for total independence from the global economy, the cannot trade for food from the countries that produce a surplus or benefit from international food aid programs.

Among the net exporters of food we find the majority of South American countries, with the exception of Venezuela and Suriname, the United States, Canada, Mauritania, Indonesia, Australia, and a few African countries such as Mauritania, Ivory Coast and Ghana. The largest net exporter of food, by far, is Argentina with $23.42 of food exports per every $1.00 of food imports. Argentina is followed by Brazil, New Zealand, Paraguay and Iceland.

https://www.indexmundi.com/blog/index.php/2013/02/19/food-exports-and-imports-worldwide/

[marble falls]

6. In the immediate now, Kim looms as a larger problem for NK. But it might be said NK ...

... contributes less to global warming than 90% of the rest of the planet.

[jmbar2]

7. Plus, they a neighbors with China

Which is a major polluter.

Hope it makes them think twice about nuking other countries. The environmental blowback would be catastrophic.

[marble falls]

9. One would hope.

[Shermann]

8. It could be a case of being on the right side for the wrong reasons

NK has no oil industry, so they have no profit motive to embracing climate denialism.

This gives KJU a bogeyman to blame his country's problems on. The fact that there is likely a kernel of truth to it makes it easy to sell. The fact that this bogeyman can be associated strongly with the United States makes it even better.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

14. Very plausible.

I didn't think of that. It is still good global warming is being taught in NK. The more who believe in the science the better. More places need an environmental movement.

[gulliver]

11. Now if we can get Putin on board, the Republicans may change course too

[louis-t]

12. Jeez, the guy can get 18 holes-in-one in a row

You'd think he could figure out how to feed his country.

[RainCaster]

13. The NK woes might be related to their form of govt?

Asking for a friend.

[Shermann]

15. That was Kim Jong Il nt

[louis-t]

19. Ohhh, it was the dad that was the golf legend?

[hatrack]

16. Huh. The Royal Potato is concerned.

Well, good luck with that.

[brooklynite]

17. Why do I imagine this will involve more nuclear power?