This is a weird one. Bear with me. From !dataisbeautiful@lemmygrad.ml:
So I said to myself, “that’s a little bit weird. The US one going up, I can actually believe, but the North Korea one being lower is definitely wrong.”
I think Our World In Data is just being shoddy, as they often do.
https://www.wfp.org/countries/democratic-peoples-republic-korea
The thing I found funny, and why I’m posting here, comes from observing why it was that they started their graph at 2003 and exactly at 2003.
I feel like you could use this as a slide in a little seminar in “how to curate your data until it matches your conclusion, instead of the other way around.”
And also, I don’t think the hunger rate suddenly dropped from epic to 0 exactly in 2003, I think more likely Our World in Data is just a little bit shoddy about their data.
This article talks about the global famine relief effort for North Korea in 2002 that included monitoring so food actually went to people.
https://asiasociety.org/famine-north-korea
So yes, I believe it could have gone from epic to 0 in one year because most of the developed world came together and shipped food to North Korea.
And it’s still shameful that it’s increasing in the US.
Of course, not the NK lying.
You fell for their propaganda.
The propaganda is that they asked for food, the developed world sent it with monitors to ensure it went to people and then they said it helped?