While a #pandemic buries kings & paupers in a common grave, #famine kills only plebes & classes systematically deprived of access to food, medicine, escape. #NorthKorea, an industrialized & literate state, has remained one of the world's most food insecure the past 30 years. 1/

According to the #UN, the prevalence of undernourishment among the total population in #NorthKorea is nearly 50%, one of the highest in the world (see my pinned tweet). NK is the only industrialized, literate state w nukes/ICBMs prolonging such conditions of vast misery. 2/

From 2001: "Médecins Sans Frontières...endeavored to overcome these restrictions and create the minimum conditions necessary to work decently in North Korea between 1995 and 1998, but was unsuccessful. The teams realised that the government fabricated" 3/ https://tinyurl.com/rx9uxn5 

"MSF began to understand that the North Korean government categorises its population according to perceived loyalty and usefulness to the regime, and those deemed hostile or useless were expendable. In fact, in 1996, Kim Jong-il publicly declared that only 30%" 4/

"of the population needed to survive to reconstruct a victorious society. With no possibility of directing aid to those most in need, MSF withdrew. Although they label their aid humanitarian, donor governments and aid organisations keep North Korea on life support..." 5/

"for political, economic and diplomatic reasons....The purpose of humanitarian aid is to save lives. By channelling it through the regime responsible for the suffering, it has become part of the system of oppression."

#KimJongUn, as his dad was, is guilty of #Extermination, 6/

the "deprivation of access to food and medicine," an #ICC definition of #CrimesAgainstHumanity.

NB: Summit pageantry & int'l aid only empower Kim, as the time & savings bought fuel his cruel policy, lethality, & perverse profligacy while prolonging the NKn people's misery. END