【新唐人2011年7月1日訊】在平壤的「瑞士發展與合作署」負責人齊威格近期表示，朝鮮當局大幅度減少糧食配給，民眾再陷入吃草度日的困境。聯合國副秘書長暨緊急救援協調員阿莫斯表示，各國為朝鮮提供救援行動遲緩，懇求國際捐助者在面對人道危機時，擱置政治歧見，呼籲緊急援助朝鮮。
《法新社》6月27號報導，齊威格(Katharina Zellweger)表示，海外捐款銳減與國際糧價高漲使得進口更為昂貴，朝鮮糧食配給量在過去18個月減半，部分地區減少到每人每天配給150克。
朝鮮人口約為2400萬，過去數十年來，都是透過大眾分配系統來供應國民糧食。上世紀90年代後期朝鮮大饑荒，導致上百萬人餓死。
齊威格說，最近走訪朝鮮各地時，看到更多營養不良的孩童，見到有更多人挖樹根或割草。種種跡象顯示，危機即將降臨。
「澳洲廣播公司」27號報導了臥底朝鮮記者最近幾個月偷拍的真實錄像鏡頭，其中有一名黨政官員命令市場攤販捐贈稻米給軍隊，還有士兵說所在的部隊一半的人營養不良。
視頻顯示，穿著骯髒的孩子在一個市場乞討食物，他們大多是孤兒，然而這些同胞連自己都吃不飽，哪有食物給這些孩子呢？一名男孩告訴記者：「我今年8歲。我父親去世了，母親拋棄了我，因此，我現在只能露宿街頭。」
《澳廣》亞洲新聞總編石丸次郎說，過去朝鮮把軍隊看成是至高無上，現在政府甚至沒有能力向軍隊提供糧食了。《自由亞洲電臺》報導，朝鮮當局把從中國進口的家畜飼料，配發給軍人食用。
朝鮮饑荒甚至有「人吃人」的事件發生。韓國《中央日報》20號報導，根據獲得的朝鮮保安部門2009年的秘密文件，有警衛殺死並吃掉同事的肉，還當作羊肉賣。
朝鮮去年遭遇嚴重的洪澇災害，又遇到自1945年以來最長的嚴寒氣候。根據韓國農業專家的分析，朝鮮今年缺糧約150萬噸。
聯合國緊急救援協調員阿莫斯(Valerie Amos)23號說，解救朝鮮缺糧需要2億1千萬美元，而目前籌到的資金還不足20%。她說，由於朝鮮核項目以及去年炮擊韓國延坪島，有關國家不願為朝鮮捐款援助。
韓國政府從2000年開始，每年向朝鮮提供50萬噸大米。自從2008年李明博就任總統以來，停止了對朝鮮的無條件援助。去年「天安艦事件」後，韓國政府切斷了對朝鮮的貿易和援助。朝鮮同時還受到美國和聯合國的制裁。
韓國政府表示，援助朝鮮的前提，是朝鮮要對「天安艦事件」和延坪島炮擊道歉。但是，朝鮮拒絕道歉。
在面臨饑荒下，美韓擔心朝鮮發動挑釁和進行核試驗。而在25號朝鮮戰爭61週年紀念儀式上，李明博總統說，中國已向韓國政府表示，如果朝鮮再次挑釁，中國不會再幫助朝鮮。
4月26號，多名諾貝爾和平獎獲得者組成的「元老團」訪問朝鮮，關注朝鮮食品短缺，他們其中包括：美國前總統卡特、南非前總統曼德拉、芬蘭前總統阿赫蒂薩裡、挪威前首相暨世衛前總幹事布倫特、愛爾蘭前總統暨聯合國首屆人權高級專員羅賓遜。
卡特：「他們制裁的是全體朝鮮人民，受苦最多的是朝鮮人民，領導人是受苦最少的。我們相信，過去50年朝鮮人民被剝奪了足夠的管道，與外界進行貿易商務，已經對他們的經濟造成了很大的傷害。」
朝鮮不僅向美韓和歐洲尋求糧食援助，甚至向津巴布韋等極度窮國乞求糧食援助，而捷克等政府拒絕了朝鮮的援助要求。
聯合國3月評估朝鮮有610萬人嚴重缺糧，約三分之一兒童發育不全，四分之一育齡婦女營養不良，37%的朝鮮人仰賴海外糧食維生。
聯合國緊急救援協調員阿莫斯23號表示，朝鮮人民正面臨僅獲得生存所需糧食的約25%。她呼籲各國政府擱置政治歧見，緊急援救朝鮮饑荒，尤其是婦女兒童急需救援。
新唐人記者李元翰、王明宇綜合報導。
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Great Famine in North Korea
Katharina Zellweger of Pyongyang-based
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
said that the North Korean government has
dramatically reduced food ration.
The people again resort to eating grassroots.
UN Deputy Secretary-General Valerie Amos
said that donations to N. Korea had been slow,
and urged donors to put aside political differences
when facing such humanitarian crisis.
As per AFP, Katharina Zellweger said that
the sharp decline in overseas donations and
high food prices made imports more expensive.
The ration was cut in half in the past 18 months.
Certain regions ration only 150g per person.
The North Korean population is about 24 million.
In the past few decades, food has been rationed.
The famine in the 1990s caused millions to perish.
Zellweger said she saw many malnourished kids
and they dug up roots and grasses for food.
The signs are pointing to an imminent crisis.
On June 27, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
(ABC) released a secretly-taken footage.
In it, an official ordered a vendor donate rice to
the army, as half of the troops are malnourished.
The footage also shows filthy orphan beggars.
As their compatriots were starving themselves,
they had no food to spare.
A boy told the reporter, "I am 8 years old.
My father died and my mother abandoned me.
So I sleep on the streets."
ABC Asian news chief editor Ishimaru Jiro said,
in the past, the regime put the army above all.
Now it is struggling to feed the army.
As per Radio Free Asia, the army is rationed
with livestock feeds imported from China.
There were incidents of cannibalism in N. Korea.
S. Korean JoongAng Daily reported on June 20,
as per classified NK security files from 2009,
a security guard killed his co-worker for food,
and even sold some of the flesh as veal.
N. Korea was devastated by floods in 2010 and
by the longest winter since 1945.
S. Korean agricultural experts believe that
N. Korea will be short of 1.5 million tons of food.
UN Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief
Coordinator Valerie Amos said on June 23 that
N. Korea needs $210 million to get enough food.
So far, only 20% has been raised.
As N. Korea bombed S. Korea』s island in 2010.
Some countries have refused to donate.
S. Korea used to donate 500,000 tons of rice
to N. Korea per year from 2000 to 2008.
President Lee Myung-bak stopped all
unconditional assistance to the North in 2008.
After the Cheonan sinking incident in 2010,
S. Korea cut off all trading and assistance.
N. Korea is also being sanctioned against
by the U.S. and the UN.
S. Korea said to restore assistance to N. Korea,
the latter must apologize for the Cheonan incident
and the bombing of Yeonpyeong Island.
N. Korea refused.
The U.S. and S. Korea worried that N. Korea
might start testing nuclear arsenals. On June 25,
the 61st anniversary of the Korean War,
Lee Myung-bak said the Chinese government
would not support N. Korea』s potential provocation.
On April 26, a group of Nobel Peace Price
recipients visited N. Korea, among whom
were the ex-U.S. president Jimmy Carter,
ex-South African president Mandela,
former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari,
former Norwegian prime minister Jagland,
and former Irish president, Mary Robinson.
Besides the U.S. and S. Korea, N. Korea even
seeks help from poor nations such as Zimbabwe.
Czech Republic had refused its request.
UN assessed in March that 6.1 million Koreans
were facing severe food shortage. One-third of the
children are growing up with hypoplasia.
25% of the females are malnourished,
and 37% of the population relies on foreign aids.
UN Coordinate Amos said on June 23, N. Koreans
only have 25% of the requisite food for survival.
She urged nations to put aside political differences
to help N. Korea, especially women and children.
NTD reporters Li Yuanhan and Wang Mingyu.
