It doesn't need any help.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10631108/

N. Korea cuts off U.N. food, ignites famine fears

Pyongyang says U.N. aid not needed, seizes control of grain

By Kari Huus

Reporter

MSNBC

Updated: 4:26 p.m. ET Dec. 29, 2005

The New Year seldom brings much to celebrate in North Korea — where food and energy shortages regularly accompany a long, bitter winter. This time around the outlook is even more uncertain, as Pyongyang’s Stalinist government moves to reassert control over the food supply, a move some experts fear will lead the isolated country into another famine.

"another famine"? Hell no. Just a continuation of the permanent famine that has been going on for decades.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?

res=F20810F6345D0C728CDDAF0894DD404482

North Korea, Facing Food Shortages, Mobilizes Millions From the Cities to Help Rice Farmers

June 1, 2005, Wednesday
By JAMES BROOKE (NYT); Foreign Desk

Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 8, Column 1, 797 words

To combat growing food shortages, the North Korean government is sending millions of city dwellers to work on farms each weekend, largely to transplant rice, according to foreign aid workers.



http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/27/news/korea.php Famine risk as North Korea recoils

By Choe Sang-Hun International Herald Tribune

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2005

SEOUL North Korea's demand that international aid agencies stop humanitarian relief operations by the end of this year signals that the Communist regime is recoiling into isolation, at a potential cost of thousands of lives, amid an increasingly assertive U.S. approach on North Korean human rights, experts said Tuesday.

Got to stop those foreign bastards from distributing food!

Oh, I forgot, Marxism is benevolent and can do no wrong, at least according to the FarLeft.