North Korea starving soldiers launch raids for food as Kim splashes out on missiles
DESPERATE North Korean soldiers are terrorising their own population by pillaging farms for food as the state pours its money into Kim’s nuclear missile programme.
By MARK CHANDLER
Express.co.uk
Sat, Nov 18, 2017
Raids on local properties are said to be soaring after Pyongyang stopped funding rations for its army, splurging all its resources on the weapons programme.
Military personnel in the hermit state have been told to find their own food supplies.
And desperate North Korea soldiers have been launching raids on farmland for supplies so they can be combat ready in preparation for World War 3.
Local media reported one recent incident saw a huge number of soldiers from the state’s elite unit the 43rd Brigade launching a “surprise attack” in a rural area of Kapsam.
A source told the Daily NK: “They all gathered for the surprise attack, fanned out across the farms and swept up all the corn.
“It’s not an everyday occurrence for the 43rd Brigade to go around plundering the farms.
“They have become much more brazen this year.”
Local residents have begun complaining the army has turned into a gang of “bandits”, desperate for food and money because it is so chronically undersupplied.
Experts say villagers are unlikely to fight back due to fears of reprisals by the authoritarian regime.
And there are fears that, if war does break out, the soldiers lack of military discipline could see them run amok if they make it across the border into South Korea.
Last month, it was revealed soldiers had been told to start collecting their own food for the first time as money was diverted into dictator Kim Jong-un’s missile programme.
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