NORTH KOREA: MILLIONS OF NORTH KOREANS STILL STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE AS THE RECLUSIVE COUNTRY ENTERS ITS FIFTH YEAR OF FAMINE

Record ID: 982533

  • Title: NORTH KOREA: MILLIONS OF NORTH KOREANS STILL STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE AS THE RECLUSIVE COUNTRY ENTERS ITS FIFTH YEAR OF FAMINE
  • Date: 1st May 1999
  • Summary: SONGRIM, NORTH HWANGHAE PROVINCE, NORTH KOREA (RECENT) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS WORKERS REPAIRING EMBANKMENT ALONG MAESON CHUN RIVER, DAMAGED BY 1995-1998 HEAVY RAINS 0.05 2. MV MLITARY BAND PLAYING ON HILLTOP AS 12,000 WORKERS REPAIR RIVER EMBANKMENT AS PART OF "FOOD FOR WORK" PROJECT 0.08 3. VARIOUS OF MEN AND WOMEN WORKING TO STRENGTHEN EMBANKMENT (2 SHOTS) 0.20 4. SCU WOMAN WORKER WAITING FOR MAN TO FILL CONTAINER ON HER BACK WITH SOIL, PAN TO WOMAN CLIMBING UP HILL 0.34 5. MV JAMES GROSSMANN, TEAM LEADER, UNITED STATES PRIVATE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATION CONSORTIUM, WALKING IN FIELD 0.37 6. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) JAMES GROSSMANN, TEAM LEADER, UNITED STATES PRIVATE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATION CONSORTIUM IN NORTH KOREA SAYING: "Well, I think the intention is to get away from straight food distribution, but to support Food For Work programmes that are going to provide value food security towards the agricultural sector in DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)". 0.58 CHONGJIN, NORTH HAMGYONG PROVINCE, NORTH KOREA (RECENT) 7. LV EMPTY RAILWAY LEADING TO FACTORY IN RECESSION-HIT NORTHEASTERN PARTS OF NORTH KOREA 1.01 8. SLV BROKEN WINDOWS, OLD FACTORY 1.05 9. SV WOMEN WORKERS PILING CRATES OF "ALTERNATIVE FOOD" (DARK BROWN NOODLES MADE FROM WHEAT MIXED WITH GRASS, MAIZE STALKS AND LEAVES) INTO TRUCK 1.17 WESTERN SEA BARRAGE, NEAR NAMPPO (RECENT) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 10. SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) TUN MYAT, DIRECTOR, RESOURCES AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS DIVISION, UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME, SAYING: "The fact that we are not seeing mega deaths is because they have been very successful in making food literally out of nothing, these so-called "alernative foods"; and this is what's keeping them living. That's why it is a famine in slow motion." 1.37 CHONGJIN, NORTH HAMGYONG PROVINCE, NORTH KOREA (RECENT) 11. SV WORKER RIM MI-TWA, 30, KNEELING ON FLOOR/ WEAK GRANDMOTHER LYING ON FLOOR, SLEEPING 1.44 12. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) RIM MI-TWA, WORKER, SAYING: "Last year, my family, consisting of three people, received 27 kilos of food through the state Public Distribution System, this was mainly maize. The last time we received food was on April 6, we received 200 grammes per person. I am now working in a Food For Work programme in reclaimed land, I receive my own ration; it's the same case for my mother, she is also working in the fields." 2.28 RYOMJIN, NORTH HAMGYONG PROVINCE, NORTH KOREA (RECENT) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 13. MV WORKERS FROM RECESSION-HIT INDUSTRIAL CITIES WORKING IN SALT FIELD REHABILITATION FOOD FOR WORK PROGRAMME/ WOMEN BANGING GROUND WITH SHOVEL/ RED FLAG FLYING IN FOREGROUND 2.37 14. SLV WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME VEHICLE DRIVING PAST STATE-RUN PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (PDS) WAREHOUSE 2.43 15. SV BAGS OF UNITED STATES WHEAT, FOR DISTRIBUTION AS PART OF FOOD FOR WORK PROGRAMME 2.48 16. SV WOMEN DIGGING IN SALT FIELDS 2.55 17. WS SALT FIELDS 3.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: SONGRIM, NAMPO, PYONGYANG, CHONGJIN, RYOMJIN, NORTH KOREA
  • Country: North Korea
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