Of course we reasoned this out, but the only reason that North Korea is engaged in "talks" regarding their nuclear "program" is that starving refugees are streaming into China. It's like the Mexicans swarming here. The Chinese want to stem the tide.
China has stepped up military patrols in the area. Notice boards erected outside police stations in Chinese border villages warn Korean-Chinese not to help their North Korean cousins.The food crises is now permanent because they have ruined their agriculture, have no tractors left, no way to til the soil, and it's all America's fault, naturally. Meanwhile
North Korea cut daily food rations to 250 grams (8.8 ounces) per person in January, just half the minimum energy requirement, from 300 grams (10.6 ounces) last year. In early July, rations were slashed further in many places to 200 grams (7 ounces) per person per day, but were increased again in mid-month.The number of calories per person is not mentioned. There is a major article HERE.
Bottom line: either we give them food so they can continue to run a collectivist farm program or they will bomb Japan.
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Hm, well, we know that there are 4 calories in a gram of protein or a gram of carboydrate, and 9 calories in a gram of fat. However, I'm sure not all 250 grams are nutritive (in other words, protein, carbs & fats do not constitute the entire universe of food mass. There's also, for example, water).
For example, 1 serving (1/4 cup) of Uncle Ben's brown rice weight 47 grams, of which 41.5 are nutritive. The rest, I guess, is water and other elements.
Vegetables and meats (which probably are not in abundance in the NK diet) have even fewer calories per total gram of weight (more water, etc.).
Given that most of the 250 grams is probably cereal with only a smattering (if any) of meat, vegetables and fruits, I'd estimate that the daily ration constitutes roughly 900 calories.
Pretty grim to think about, eh?
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