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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Pyongyang syndrome Agriculture and energy solutions to avoid the fate of North Korea	Sharon Astyk	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John Feffer has a good article over at Asia Times Online. It points out the deep danger we're in -- how teetery both the world and America's food and energy systems are. It is well worth a read, particularly because of its clear articulation of the bind we're in -- the strategies we've used in the past to get out of disaster will only accelerate collapse in the long-term.. The tools we're using to get more food out of the ground take food from the future. The ana ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, energy, North Korea, organic food (all these topics)

Mother Earth's triple whammy Why North Korea was a global crisis canary	Guest author	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies and the author of numerous articles on food policy and on North Korea. It was originally published on TomDispatch and is reprinted here with Tom's kind permission. ----- Gas prices are above $4 a gallon; global food prices surged 39 percent last year; and an environmental disaster looms as carbon emissions continue to spiral upward. The global ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, energy, international politics, North Korea (all these topics)

Also, Could You Paint Tom Sawyer's Fence? South Korea ships oil to North Korea in nuke-shutdown deal		05 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Also, Could You Paint Tom Sawyer's Fence? South Korea ships oil to North Korea in nuke-shutdown deal South Korea will ship oil to North Korea next week as part of a six-nation agreement reached in February that trades energy aid for a shutdown of the North's main nuclear facility. Funny story, though: North Korea hasn't shut down the reactor. But it totally will! It promises! In talks on Tuesday, North Korean ...
Topics: energy, news, North Korea, oil, South Korea (all these topics)

Kim Jong Illin' North Korea's Environment Is in Sorry Shape		30 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Kim Jong Illin' North Korea's Environment Is in Sorry Shape Its rivers and streams are filled with industrial waste, its air is polluted, and its landscape is increasingly devoid of trees. Can't tell what country we're talking about? It's North Korea. The first large-scale environmental assessment of the country, conducted by dozens of government and academic researchers under the auspice ...
Topics: deforestation, North Korea, pollution and waste, United Nations (all these topics)

Kim Jong Ill		13 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Kim Jong Ill In a sign of the further souring of relations with Washington, North Korea announced yesterday that it would immediately restart a nuclear reactor that has been offline since 1994, when it nearly provoked a war with the U.S. North Korea says the Yongbyon reactor is its only option for producing electricity in light of the recent suspension of fuel deliveries from the U.S., Japan, South Korea, and the European Union. ...
Topics: North Korea, nuclear power (all these topics)

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