They go through this every now and then, people forced to eat dirt and bark...some rumors of cannibalism surface here and there too.
All part of the honor and glory of living in a People's Republic!
But the military had always been taken care of first, so this could be a dangerous development, one that could see a coup with hardliners put into authority who see invasion as the only means to feed a starving and desperate people.
No doubt our own Dear Leader will only soil himself and dither as the Nork's stream across the DMZ...