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i british manager, welcome to deed of the news. asia ledger could join us, north korean leader kim doggone has ordered an expansion of farmland, so food production can be increased. this is a mixed warnings from south korea of a growing food crisis. thunderous applause for the great leader at a rare public gathering of north korea's ruling workers party, kim junglin has promised to increase farm land and boost grain production. as the secret of stalinist enclave faces the worsening food shortage tongue. for all the political pageantry and bows to accelerate prosperity. exactly how he plans to improve the food supplies. not clear. let me uni. north korea restricts the operation of markets and votes, much of its scarce resources to expanding its nuclear arsenal. border lockdown to come about the cove. 19 pandemic. global sanctions and north korea's nuclear programs plus,

inadequate sunlight and damaging typhoons have combined to wreak havoc on the agriculture sector. the u. n says more than 10700000 north koreans. 41 percent of the population were undernourished between 20192021. this makes north korea the 4th most malnourished country in the world. despite the food shortage, north korea is extremely reluctant to accept foreign food aid. state media has likened to taking poisoned candy. jeremy not more benjamin simpler stain. he's an expert on the north korean economy and an associate research fellow at the swedish institute of international affairs. then the un estimate some 41 percent of the north korean population is under. nourished with these new warnings of a food crisis. how much worse could the situation get? it could always get worse. unfortunately, the situation in north korea is always very precarious. people's margins are very,

very small, and even a small, if, even if the situation gets a little bit worse, it can have very drastic consequences for many people. what is behind these latest warnings of crisis? the latest food crisis that the government is trying to tackle. i really big really got a lot worse during corbett 19 and i say a lot worse because north korea is any perpetual food crisis of sorts. there's really ever since the 99 use, there's never really been enough food or any sort of consistent supply. but since the closure of the border at the beginning of the panoramic food prices are starting to rise in north korea, we know this through sources through new south. it's in south korea that have sources on the ground in north korea. and overall things seem to have gotten more difficult and there's a whole host of reasons for this. border closure makes it harder to import food for one. and another reason is that spare parts and equipment needed for agriculture

can flow through the border in the same way that it would or did before the time that makes. so there is a whole host of reasons why things have gone so. so bad right now, kim, john is also ordered an expansion of farmland and modernization of agricultural machinery. how helpful will this be for north koreans? well, if there were resources to pay for these things, they would be very, very meaningful. i do think that the government seems to be taking the situation very seriously. we know from, again from reports from inside north korea that they've been doing, surveys of land in order to test the quality of soil and things like that. to really try to see what can be done, but all of any measures that the government might want to take are limited by the fact well by 2 facts. one is that there simply isn't enough resources. this is not

an area that the regime prioritize is in its internal budgets. the nuclear missile programs are far more important. and another reason is that trades still hasn't fully restarted with china after, after north north korea close the border in early 2020, due to the damage. so people are still waiting for tray to resume with china and for north korea to be able to, to import the sort of machinery and other agricultural equipment needs to realize these plans but, but in the, in the current situation it's, it's very unlikely we leave the for the time being, thank you so much for joining us. bensonhurst in the the philippines is among 9 countries of the pacific where the state of democracy has declined substantially in the last 10 years. this is according to the state of democracy to for 2023, released by the v. them institute based in sweden, and it's

a decline, philippines journalist and nobel prize winner. maria reza has seen 1st hand targeted by the regime of former president rodrigo to 10 day. she's recently released her new book, how to stand up to a dictate, tap the, the blues, janelle, to milan, asked her about that. and democracy in the philippines. maria russel, welcome your book is called how to stand up to a dictator. how would you assess the state of democracy in the philippines under current president obama marcos? is it better or worse? we are at a strange moment in time where of 37 years after a people power revolt ousted the mark was family was for an end mark loss, the father, a clip to cracked and stole $10000000000.00. 37 years later, his son, his namesake, forget mark las junior was overwhelmingly elected president. and strangely enough, the previous administration had set the bar so low that we've actually improved.

but where we move forward back now becomes the 2nd president, marcos president mark as his goal and he has a lot to he, he, he is personally trying to vindicate his family name. and you know, this phrase we use in the philippines never again, except in the philippines. we're back to get out again. and what do you think the role of personal responsibility for voters is like in this day and age? does that even exist? we used to have this adage, you know, you get the government that you deserve. is that, is that true? no longer unfortunately, i mean in the philippines, this isn't to be that we had right. is it the fault of our people who were manipulated, enabled by facebook, manipulated by power? you go into the poorest areas of manila, the capital in the philippines. and, you know, we talked to some of these people who voted for mark was one of them is a mother whose son was killed in the drug war. and you know,

many of them believed that, that if they voted for mark was they would get gold. and you know, i reporter out, so why, oh, i watched it on youtube when fact inspection merge and lies become facts that a totalitarian winds a dictator winds. because the way you control people is by controlling their sense of reality. in the book, i talk about an end to impunity of the, the people killed in the drug war in the philippines of the detect administration. but i also ask for an end to impunity of mark soccer berg and facebook. in an ideal world, would mark fucker berg be criminally liable? do you think he should go to jail? both united nations and facebook meta sent teams to me and mar

to investigate the impact of facebook on genocide and both groups came back saying that it enabled genocide, nothing fundamental was changed. no one was held accountable. it is up to the justice system to figure out culpability. and that's the problem at this time period, right? it is, it allows impunity and so evil continues and i, you know, i, i've gone as far in the past the saying that, i understand i'm a, c, e o of a company. right. and in america, shareholder values. but there's also multi stakeholder approaches. um, so i if it almost feels like these companies use as an excuse, maximum shareholder profit of where they forget that you know, there's a line between a moral, immoral and evil. i would say genocide goes towards evil. i think most oh,

death up. oh, did i mention were still partners with facebook? and that's because you have no choice, right? this is a distribution platform. if you're a news organization, you've talked about accountability. you've also talked about not really being able to walk away from facebook because no one is able to have you heard from mark zuckerberg at all since you've written your book? no, not at all, although, you know, i have friends inside piece book, but it's funny. the tech backlash has started. ray and companies now more than ever, it hasn't laid off this many people in the tech industry, which hopefully means good things to other industries. because then these people who understand tech and then merge into society, we need to, to bring that expertise into other things, including into legislation. i think what we've seen over and over and over is the

technology companies focus on a libertarian view of free speech. these are primarily white men who have never felt a time of vulnerability more tucker brings never lived outside of the united states . he's created something that could potentially be the best thing that could have happened. i know i believed in facebook, but right now it has enabled the rise of fascism. we are losing free will. we haven't talked so much about you yet. has how has your life changed since winning the nobel prize? has the increased spotlight helped you or has it made you more of a target? i think it was an acknowledgement of the sacrifice as journalists have had to me globally, just to do our jobs for me, it meant it was a vindication for rapport. but for me,

it meant that doing the right thing is the right thing. because for so many years, it felt like you were foolish to continue standing by these values of, of, and the mission of journalism. news organizations are so weakened today that we cannot do this alone, and we need civil society to work with us to try to reclaim our civic space. our independence, our freed up. yes. hard. i don't really answer personally, but no head. okay. yeah, laska. well, this next one is still going to be personal. you've mentioned that it's exhausting to wake up every day in the trenches. how do you i focus on the good, you know, that, that these tech companies because it's an attention economy because it's an outreach economy. they want to keep scrolling and what they've done is they've allowed the worst of human nature to take over the information ecosystem. but this

is my 37th year as a journalist. and inevitably, in the worst of times, i see the best of human nature. humanity has far more in common than we have differences, and that's the good that we have highlight. maria, rafa, thank you very much. and that's it for this big. there's most stories from the region on our website did ever dot com forward slash a share with you back here on monday to back with people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned to way families and see the reason for these correct? only with people seeing extreme dreams getting

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