From Goole News: While North Korea prepares a lavish funeral for late leader Kim Jong-Il, outside the showpiece capital people are struggling to survive and so hungry they even eat grass, observers say. Since Kim’s body was laid out in a glass coffin, official television has shown a procession of smartly-dressed, well-fed members of the country’s privileged elite paying their respects. But away from the television cameras, whose lenses are largely focused on Pyongyang, many North Koreans are trapped in poverty, malnourished or even starving to death, according to aid workers and defectors. Read more.