Cannibalism in North Korea

Home Forums Decaffeinated Coffee Cannibalism in North Korea

Viewing 24 posts - 1 through 24 (of 24 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • #607983
    Torah613Torah
    Participant

    As usual, there is a famine in North Korea. Unusually, cases of reported cannibalism have been rising.

    What is the Torah view on this? What is this meant to teach us?

    #924759
    avhaben
    Participant

    There have never been reliable reports out of the reculsive North Korea, as no reporters are allowed in that country.

    So take everything you read with 10 grains of salt.

    #924760
    Torah613Torah
    Participant

    Avhaben: Right, the situation is probably even worse than what they report.

    #924761
    avhaben
    Participant

    The situation may be better or worse. Most likely the report has no bearing on the actual truth. Reports out of North Korea have historically been notoriously incorrect.

    #924762
    ThePurpleOne
    Member

    why doesnt the united states send them some food or water to water their crops??

    #924763
    Torah613Torah
    Participant

    We have no way of knowing whether they were correct or incorrect.

    The fact that it is reported means we have something to learn.

    #924764
    avhaben
    Participant

    The U.S. used to send them emergency food aid but they stopped it after the two governments kept getting at each other throats.

    #924765
    Toi
    Participant

    because theyre north korea…

    #924766
    Torah613Torah
    Participant

    Purplicious, that’s a great question. They have tried, but the government confiscates anything they send and does not take care of their own people, preferring to direct their resources to becoming a nuclear power.

    #924767
    zahavasdad
    Participant

    There is no food there, that is known

    Satellite photographs show the country as brown (meaning no green plants) likley because even the grass was eaten

    #924768
    ThePurpleOne
    Member

    oh gosh.. so everyones just guna starve 2 death?? thats insane.. any jews there? i cud mail them foood!!

    #924769
    zahavasdad
    Participant

    oh gosh.. so everyones just guna starve 2 death?? thats insane.. any jews there? i cud mail them foood!!

    What difference does it make if there are jews are not, Someone starving is someone starving.

    But you cant send food there anyway, the country is cut off

    #924770

    Purplicious- The U.S. has no official diplomatic relationship or ties with North Korea, and has not had any for a long time- I don’t think there much you can do.

    The despotic, selfish North Korean government brought this on themselves. May Hashem help all the innocent people who are living in poverty and stuck in this terrible country.

    #924771
    avhaben
    Participant

    No ties? The U.S. and N.K. are currently in a state of war. (And have been so since the Korean War in the ’50’s.)

    #924772
    yytz
    Participant

    North Korea is probably the worst government in the world. In less closed societies with bad governments, we should support efforts to improve things. But in NK, no NGOs operate there, because the country is controlled in such a totalitarian way. So we can’t donate. All we can do is pray that Hashem removes these wicked rulers. We “should constantly pray for mercy and blessing for the world just as the Supernal Father has mercy on all His creatures.” (Tomer Devorah.)

    #924773

    avhaben: what’s the nafka minah? The point remains the same- north korea is not a place we should be sending our tax dollars to.

    #924774
    avhaben
    Participant

    Is sending billions of dollars a year to Egypt a better use of money than to feed starving Koreans?

    #924775
    em0616
    Member

    North Korea has concentration camps, holding about 200,000 people deemed hostile to the region. Man, ladies and children work 16 hours a day, and are forced to survive by eating rats and picking corn kernels out of animal waste. Tens of thousands die from malnutrition, and other diseases.

    #924776
    ThePurpleOne
    Member

    wow sounds terrible.. what abt the gov ppl? how are they eating? so basically north koreas guna be wiped off the map if e/o dies.. this is so scary… what are we supp 2 do? is the us gov having meetings abt it? like sec of state??

    #924777
    yehudayona
    Participant

    The late “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong-il, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Hennessey Cognac while his people starved.

    #924778
    rebdoniel
    Member

    Koreans eat dogs, so this doesn’t surprise me all that much.

    Foreign aid is not our duty; aid to Israel is patronizingly antisemitic and foreign aid in general constitutes a form of imperialism.

    We have a duty to our own people first and foremost. When we don’t have working Americans going to bed hungry, then we can worry about others. Foreign aid is unconstitutional.

    #924779
    akuperma
    Participant

    Be wary of what you read in the press. Few journalists have access to North Korea, and the sources of “information” are enemies of the regime. While that doesn’t prove the falsehood of the statements, it suggests being dubious.

    Enemies of people, especially when engaged in a life or death armed struggle, do tend to be less than objective in reporting (and making up) facts.

    Given that in a war the government will depend on the loyalty of the conscript army, I doubt they’ll try to antagonize them by eating their relatives.

    #924780
    em0616
    Member

    A couple thousand North Korean defectors manage to flee

    across the border each year, and their plight is very well

    documented. If anyone is caught escaping the country, or

    repatriated by China, their punishments are extremely severe.

    There is plenty of documentation on life in North Korea.

    And it’s well known that in the 90’s, an estimated two million

    people died from famine. Video footage back then, clearly

    showed sickly emaciated children, some with stick-thin bodies.

    Although journalists do not have access to North Korea, the

    thousands of defectors each year provide a gold-mine of

    information.

    And every single year, there are reports from defectors about

    cannibalism, and bodies being dug up after funeral.

    I am sure their army gets preferential treatment, and are well

    fed.

    All of their citizens are brainwashed. Have you seen the footage

    of the mass hysteria when Kim Jong-il passed away?

    #924782
    alternate view
    Participant

    Any food that gets donated to North Korea is given to the army. The regular citizens can eat rats, grass, plant roots etc.

Viewing 24 posts - 1 through 24 (of 24 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.