Corée Du Nord: Malnutrition, Chiffres Officiels

[Taisei Yokusankai]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GC15Dg01.html

I'm often critical of North Korea, so all the more reason to give credit when it's due. This is an impressive, highly professional report comprising 104 pages, five chapters, 46 tables, 24 figures. The sample was 4,800 children, ages up to six, and 2,109 mothers of children under two, drawn evenly from seven of North Korea's nine provinces plus the capital, Pyongyang.

Having taught social science research methods in a former life, I get a kick out of reading about random and cluster sampling (sad, I know). Then I pinch myself. This is North Korea. An official document! All these numbers! And on a potentially very sensitive subject, too.

For what this survey measures, with grim precision, is what years of hunger have done to the bodies of small children - and I do mean small - and their mothers in North Korea.

Since the last survey in 2002, the proportion of young children chronically malnourished (stunted) is down from 42% to 37%. Acute malnutrition (wasting) eased from 9% to 7%. But those underweight rose from 21% to 23% - though for children under the age of two, those most at risk, this fell from 25% to 21%. One in five children had diarrhea, and one in eight showed symptoms of acute respiratory infection. But mothers have made no progress: a third were anemic and malnourished, the same figure as two years ago. Vitamin A deficiency is common.

Even at the national level, the few slight improvements offer scant comfort. The more than one-third (37%) of North Korean's under six who are stunted - and especially the one in eight (12%) who are severely stunted - will grow up stunted and stay that way. Even once Korea is reunified politically, they will stand out physically: dwarfed by their Southern peers.

Le World Food Program nourrit un tiers de la population.

[jugurta]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GC15Dg01.html

Le World Food Program nourrit un tiers de la population.

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je suis en train de lire Corée du nord état voyou

patit livre oh combien nécessaire de Rigoulot spécialiste des communismes asiatiques.

je te laisse ce lien d'une execution comme il s'en pratique sans que les grands de c e monde ne s'en émeuvent; pas un défilé; pas une manif.

c'est comme ça… corée du nord

[LaFéeC]

j'avais entendu que l'évolution de la précision dans les images satellites avait permis d'en savoir plus, notamment de voir qu'une bonne partie de la population vit dans des camps de travail…

un lien ?

[Alex]

je suis en train  de lire Corée du nord état voyou

patit livre oh combien nécessaire de Rigoulot spécialiste des communismes asiatiques.

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La seule chose qu'on a envie de faire après avoir fini le livre c'est de gerber sur un communiste.

[Legion]

Ils donnent des chiffres officiels sur la malnutrition ? Hum, moi dire eux vouloir subvention.

[Taisei Yokusankai]

Ils donnent des chiffres officiels sur la malnutrition ? Hum, moi dire eux vouloir subvention.

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Ce n'est pas la première fois, et des subventions ils en ont depuis des lustres, quoiqu'elles ont bien diminué depuis le coup de "nous avons les moyens de vous faire sauter".

[Chitah]

Des nouvelles du paradis qu'est la Corée du Nord:

A human rights organization known for tracking down Nazi war criminals is taking aim at North Korea, saying the regime uses deadly nerve gas on its own citizens and may even be operating experimental gas chambers.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center sent American rabbi Abraham Cooper, the centre's associate dean, to Asia to investigate the reports, which the North Korean regime denies.

Cooper interviewed a number of former North Korean officials who have since defected.

One man, a 55-year-old chemist, claimed he was in charge of an experiment to test the effect of deadly nerve gas on political prisoners.

"He said he was involved in the killing of two people – one who did not expire for 2½ hours, and the second didn't die till 3½ hours had passed," Cooper told CBC for a documentary airing Wednesday night on the radio program Dispatches.

Other defectors told him of "mass starvations, gruesome experimentations, and yes, as we now are beginning to learn and to confirm, gas chambers," he said.

Soon Ok Lee, a North Korean now living in the United States, said she spent years in a political prison camp before escaping.

"When I was in jail, there was at least once or twice in the prison camp, chemical testing on humans that I witnessed," she said.

Bon, faisons attention tout de même: ces témoignages sont de première main, mais il s'agit d'officiels passés à l'Ouest auraient affirmé tout cela aux enquêteurs du Centre Simon Wiesenthal.

[Chitah]

Après l'essai de missiles en mer du Japon la semaine dernière, la suite des réjouissances:

North Korea May Test Nuclear Device

By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 27 minutes ago

TOKYO - Japan has information that

North Korea may be preparing for a nuclear test, a Defense Agency official said Friday, less than a week after Pyongyang is believed to have tested a short-range missile off its eastern coast.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, refused to specify the information or its source.

An official at the Foreign Ministry said Japan was exchanging information on North Korea with "concerned countries," but did not confirm that there were signs of an imminent test.

The New York Times on Friday reported that the White House and

Pentagon officials were examining satellite photographs that suggest North Korea is making rapid preparations for a nuclear test.

The report, which cited unidentified American and foreign officials, also said that the U.S. had extensively briefed Japan and South Korea on the preparations.

Japanese officials refused to confirm they had been briefed on the possible test by the Americans.

Japan, which is in range of Pyongyang's missiles, has been working with the United States, South Korea and China to draw North Korea back to six-party talks on its nuclear weapons programs.

Pyongyang is boycotting the talks, and Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura told reporters on Friday that Tokyo could push to bring the case to the U.N. Security Council if there is no progress in the negotiations.