Dasl Yoon a reporter from the "Wall Street Journal" wrote an article on October 18 of this year called "While Kim Jong Un Shows World 'Fire and Fury,' He Projects Different Message at Home." In this article, the reporter talks about how Kim Jong Un focuses more on the food struggle in the propaganda instead of weapon launches. In the past years, the state media published almost every launched missile in the country but now the government is giving more priority to food insecurities which started getting worse with Covid-19 and the pandemic. Kim knows that he has to give more importance to the food shortage because he knows the regime leader would lose the trust of the people. Further, 70% of the people would suffer from shortages and people will suffer from it. Before the pandemic, the situation was way more different because the North Koreans could buy corn cheaper, but now it increased making it more difficult for the people to afford it. With this problem, Kim has tried to gain sympathy from his people and acknowledge economic missteps that lead to the shortage of food and he is trying to alleviate the problems this past year. However, the regime is dedicating much of its budget to military advances instead of incrementing the budget to solve the food shortage. Finally, Kim will continue to emphasize self-reliance as a way to solve the food shortage, but he will not give away his weapons for food aid.
Sergio Bracco
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