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Ni minns nyheten från BBC som jag skrev om för ett par veckor sedan, undernäringen i Nordkorea beror på marknadsreformer.

Market reforms introduced in North Korea in recent years mean most people only get about half the food they need through the state and have to buy the rest themselves.

Idag säger vi välkommen till New York Times:

”At end of June, I cut 2.5 million people off from their food rations,” said Mr. Ragan, an American, referring to a group equal to 10 percent of North Korea’s population. Unless new food comes quickly from the outside, the number of North Koreans receiving foreign food aid will plunge to 1.5 million in August, from 6.5 million people this spring.

The World Food Program, the largest foreign food supplier to North Korea, has received only 6 percent of the 230,000 tons it needs this year, Anthony Banbury, Asia director for the United Nations agency, told a news conference in Seoul last Friday, according to Reuters.

Referring to government rations, he said, ”What the government is able to provide the people now, these 250 grams a day, is a starvation ration.”

About 70 percent of North Korea’s population lives in cities, where the collapse of a state food distribution system and partial free market reforms have forced them to buy food at market prices. [Min anm.]

Så nu har åtminstone två artiklar på två veckor hänvisat till marknadsreformer som förklaring till undernäring i Nordkorea. Artiklarnas gemensamma nämnare? Richard Ragan på FN-organet World Food Program. Och hos WPF kan man hitta ett pressmeddelande, daterat 27 maj:

[E]conomic reforms have led to steep increases in market prices of basic food items and reduced the purchasing power of the poorer segments of society.

Som jag skrev förra gången, det är kommandoekonomin Nordkorea som havererat. Det är inte samma sak som marknadsreformer. Synd att artikeln innehåller sådana dumheter, för i övrigt var den intressant.

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