Crisis grips North Korea amid food shortage - World news - Asia-Pacific - North Korea - msnbc.com

This is what happens when government controls everything. In other words, Communism never works! So those Occupy Wall Protesters better wake up and face reality!

REPORT: In a pediatric hospital in North Korea's most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy.
"Their mothers have to bring them here on bicycles," said duty doctor Jang Kum Son in the Yellow Sea port city of Haeju. "We used to have an ambulance but it's completely broken down. One mother traveled 72 kilometers (45 miles). By the time they get here, it's often too late."