The country is being hit by famine, what does the government do?  Continue building the tower of babel

Construction of the 105 story Pyongyang hotel, the Ryukyung Hotel, began in 1987 as a propaganda display of the superiority of the North Korean governing system which was engaged in a legitimacy competition with the South at the time. Construction was suspended two years later due to lack of funds.

South Koreans visiting Pyongyang witnessed the construction being carried out by Orascom Construction Industries S.A.E., an Egyptian company which is preparing to build a mobile phone network in Pyongyang.

Orascom is the same company that plans to introduce 3G mobile network into Pyongyang. Somehow the country is starving and they’re going to get 3G before New Jersey.

Could be worse, it could have been spent spraying Kim-Il Sung’s ass in gold.

Create a bumper sticker that could cause more car accidents than awareness (Via. OTB)

As food aid goes through North Korea’s public distribution system, these people will be the last ones fed

A South Korean aid group says prison inmates in North Korea are dying of starvation as the communist nation struggles with a food crisis.

Buddhist aid group Good Friends, which works in the North, says a proportion of those dying of hunger in North Korean jails were imprisoned on charges relating to stealing food to feed themselves.

“The number of people dying of starvation in prisons has been increasing. They are most vulnerable to a food shortage,” it said in its latest newsletter.

The American think tank, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, has warned that North Korea is threatened with outright famine, a decade after up to one million of its citizens died of starvation.