That's what they are saying in some quarters. The "Arduous March" has returned. Arduous, as in "characterized by toilsome exertion to the point of exhaustion." More like, to the point of starvation and death, in North Korean terms. The lawful "march" was said to have taken place when the Korean citizen were led through the worst famine in their history -some say anyone's history- back in the 90's, colse to 1994-2000 to be a miniature more precise. All the reasons for such an event are not clear, but governmental mis-management is never ruled out except by Pyongyang.
During the "march" years, the collective Distribution ideas suddenly stopped. citizen ate more grass than rice. Thievery increased. Death abounded then multiplied. Hunger kills. Two to three million, they say.
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But in spite of up-to-date pronouncements from the capital that by the year 2012 (Kim Il Sung's 100th birthday), North Korea will become so great a power that it will "dwarf all the difficulties" and solve all the problems it has been having, the citizen who know best say it aint necessarily so.
some homes had less food last year than during the "arduous march" years. the longer some citizen live there, they say, the less hope they have of living. lowly laborers say that 2007 was the very worst year yet, at least about food. in 2007 laborers were forbidden to farm on their own. once again, more and more citizen are turning to lives of thievery to survive. now the thievery is turning to members of their own families. many North Koreans drift away into the mountains, never to be seen again. citizen are working hard all year, but the food crops last only a few months.
No one knows the future. Maybe by 2012 North Korea unquestionably will be a rich and victorious nation, and excellent too. I'd say they'd have a much better shot at that if they will open up to the inventor of the harvest. Right now they are being told He does not exist. Though some know otherwise, the big breakthrough of spiritual and material uplift that comes when Christ is free to be preached nationwide, is still in the future.
Our job as believers is clear. Pray, pray, and then pray some more.
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