Catastrophe in North Korea -Times Online
Times Online reports: "Of all the atrocities of modern history, famine is the least commemorated. It is an agonising mass death sentence imposed, invariably, by a non-democratic regime. With the possible exception of Mao’s China during the Great Leap Forward, no tyranny has acted with greater ruthlessness in perpetuating its people’s sufferings than North Korea. The Times reported this weekend that famine is an imminent prospect in the isolated prison-state. Hunger killed millions of North Koreans in the 1990s, and threatens to do so again."

Comment: This is an interesting report because it helps answer the question: Does famine happen in the modern world? It has, it does, and it is happening in North Korea.