This is what happens in these 
Communist and Socialist regimes.
The elite, government officials, and military are taken care of, while the commoners starve.

Washington Post by Chico Harlan (excerpts):  Tokyo - North Korea on Wednesday signaled a willingness to freeze its uranium enrichment program in exchange for "confidence-building" incentives from the United States, such as suspension of sanctions and resumption of food aid.  The statement carried by North Korea's state-run news agency and distributed to a Foreign Ministry spokesman, was the first sign that the North's new young leader Kim Jong Eun, might be open to a deal discussed last year and then put on hold after the death of his father, Kim Jong II.  The statement had a chiding tone - it criticized Washington for linking a humanitarian issue with a security issue - but it had none of the bellicose rhetoric typical of Pyongyang's foreign pronouncements.  The United States should "build confidence" by increasing the amount of food aid included in the deal, the statement said.  Until Wednesday, North Korea had never commented on the aid for weapons talks under discussion.  Kim Jong Eun, who has risen quickly to power since his father's death, would gain a chance to address his country's massive food shortages, but in return would have to relinquish part of a weapons program that North Korea uses to bolster its security and its national pride.  North Korea has used previous denuclearization deals to extract food and energy aid, only to back out on its promises.  The United States halted its previous food shipments to North Korea almost three years ago, after a long range missile test by Pyongyang.  At that point, Washington had shipped about a third of a planned 500,000 metric tons of food.  US officials have voiced concern that Pyongyang will divert food aid to the governing elite, distribute it to the military or sell it to private markets at a profit.  North Korea restricts the ability of aid workers to operate in the country, allowing for little transparency.  Aid groups describe major food shortages in North Korea, particularly in rural areas where the state-run food distribution system offers little help.  This month, the country made a rare mention of its "burning" food problem, but it provided no clear answer for improving the system, calling only for more efficient farming practices and greater loyalty to the revolution.  

Commentary:  As bad off as Africa is, with hundreds of thousands dying of starvation and disease due to drought and Muslim wars, food aid organizations state the Asian countries suffer worse starvation statistics, but there is little publication about the problems due to pride and secrecy within these dictatorial governments.  Famine will come to America, it is only a matter of time.  The people of God will be gone by that time.  The Word of God says, "I have been young and now I am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or God's children begging for bread" Psalm 37:25.  Jesus said that in the last days marking His return, "Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines, pestilences and earthquakes in various places" Matthew 24:7.