Help/Aid Towards North Korea
Unlike America's policy which restrained weapons to Korea, Joseph Stalin (ally to North Korea in WWII) heavily armed Kim Il Sung's North Korean army and air forces with military equipment way more needed than to be used for defensive purposes in order to help Kim Il Sung dominate the rest of the Korean land. Between 1995 and 2008, the USA aided North Korea with over $1.3 billion in assistance. More than 50% for food aid and about 40% for energy assistance. Since early 2009, the USA has provided virtually no aid to North Korea, although there has been talk about sending some large scale food aid. And, the Obama Administration officials have said that they would be willing to consider other types of aid if North Korea takes steps indicating that it will get rid of its nuclear program. But, being an unexpected breakthrough, there appears little chance that the Obama Administration will provide any type of aid to North Korea in the future. In February 2013, North Korea announced it had done its third test of a nuke launch, this test came only weeks after its apparently successful launch of a long range nukes. Since 1995, the international community (generous countries of the world) have donated over 12 million tons of food aid to North Korea to help North Korea get themselves out of gianormous food shortages that began in the early 90's. A severe famine in the mid 90's killed around 600,000 to 3 million North Koreans. Four countries, China, South Korea, the United States, and Japan, have been the main source of food aid, contributing over 75% since 1995.
Unlike America's policy which restrained weapons to Korea, Joseph Stalin (ally to North Korea in WWII) heavily armed Kim Il Sung's North Korean army and air forces with military equipment way more needed than to be used for defensive purposes in order to help Kim Il Sung dominate the rest of the Korean land. Between 1995 and 2008, the USA aided North Korea with over $1.3 billion in assistance. More than 50% for food aid and about 40% for energy assistance. Since early 2009, the USA has provided virtually no aid to North Korea, although there has been talk about sending some large scale food aid. And, the Obama Administration officials have said that they would be willing to consider other types of aid if North Korea takes steps indicating that it will get rid of its nuclear program. But, being an unexpected breakthrough, there appears little chance that the Obama Administration will provide any type of aid to North Korea in the future. In February 2013, North Korea announced it had done its third test of a nuke launch, this test came only weeks after its apparently successful launch of a long range nukes. Since 1995, the international community (generous countries of the world) have donated over 12 million tons of food aid to North Korea to help North Korea get themselves out of gianormous food shortages that began in the early 90's. A severe famine in the mid 90's killed around 600,000 to 3 million North Koreans. Four countries, China, South Korea, the United States, and Japan, have been the main source of food aid, contributing over 75% since 1995.
Kim Jong Un's grandfather and Joseph Stalin