Children do not thrive in "self-reliant" N. Korea

Welcome to the "Communist state one-man dictatorship" of North Korea, where children are born to lives that are nasty, brutish, and short - to borrow from Thomas Hobbes (q.v.).

From today's news:

The United Nations says that more than a fourth of all North Korean children are stunted from chronic malnutrition and fully two-thirds of the country's 24 million people don't know where their next meal is coming from.

The U.N. said Friday that its Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs found that 2.8 million North Koreans "are in need of regular food assistance amidst worrying levels of chronic malnutrition and food insecurity."

Read the UN news article.