Via Daily Mail:
North Korean soldiers are being given months off to scrounge around fields in a desperate bid to find food, new reports from inside the reclusive state has revealed.
Pictures have emerged which appear to show soldiers looking through a corn field was published on Daily NK, a Seoul-based website which reveals what life is truly like in North Korea.
A source from the northern Ryanggang Province told the website: ‘The officers know better than anyone that they must feed their soldiers in order to maintain morale, and that rations of cornmeal with very few calories only serve to instill disillusionment among them.’
Other sources said many residents have expressed ‘pity about the situation’ after soldiers are spending up to three months pillaging their crops.