Word: pyongyang
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...Barack Obama thought a change at the White House might ease a few of the outstanding problems left to him by George W. Bush, North Korea, for one, isn't playing along - and that should surprise no one. Pyongyang is again demonstrating that it's a bipartisan pain in the neck. Whether you're a hawk professing your "loathing" for Kim Jong Il, the dictator who presumably still runs Pyongyang, or a dove who wants to extend hands across the water, North Korea has already made clear that nothing has changed as far as it's concerned. In the past...
...fact, Lee just appointed as his Unification Minister a notably hawkish scholar who was one of the architects of the policy that suspended rice and fertilizer aid to the North in lieu of progress on the nuclear issue. So North Korea watchers in Seoul now believe that Pyongyang is upping the ante to create widespread concern in the South about the deterioration of North-South relations...
Smith presented research indicating that if the ability of a province to grow food were the only factor in malnutrition rates, North Korea’s capital Pyongyang would have the worst levels of malnutrition in the country. However, Pyongyang ranks highest in citizen nutrition, while the breadbasket province of South Hwanghae is among the worst...
Smith explained that the disparity between Pyongyang and South Hwanghae’s hunger problems—despite the latter region’s high agricultural capabilities—stems in part from the fact that “the population of South Hwanghae had little regular contact with foreigners with whom they could earn or obtain hard currency and thus few opportunities to buy and sell food...
Moreover, she continued, the state’s political machinery rests in the capital, which “facilitated the extraction of South Hwanghae’s grain” to feed the Pyongyang population, meaning that while South Hwanghae could produce the food, the province lacked the economic and political capacity to keep the food for its own residents...