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>the US is not the only country in the world
No, but the US is the largest--nearly sole--supplier of food-aid to the DPRK. When you say "the civilized world...giving them food", you are effectively talking about the United States. China buys their coal and perhaps some steel; Europe invests in some of their businesses; before sanctions Russia supplied them with military equipment and Iran probably exchanges nuclear materials and weapon designs with them through the black market. Pic related; these countries have legitimate relations with the DPRK (unlike the US, which uses back-channels to deliver aid).
>They handed the farms over to idiots in the name of communism, the idiots didn't know how to grow food.
One of the things most communist countries have failed the hardest at is farming. This isn't exactly how it went down in the USSR. Much like what's happened in the DPKR and the PRC before it, the government attempted to force specific people (unskilled undesirables, peasants, etc.) to work the farms and set limits on production that keep market value high while forbidding anyone outside the designated agricultural sector to do any farming--even for self-subsistence or home gardening. The initial result was a massive decrease in total food output, as many who had produced their own food to survive in their already poor countries were forbidden to do so, and indeed the farms being worked by people who were neither skilled in farming nor motivated to cooperate other than for the sake of their miserable lives--which were pretty fucking miserable.
You could say they more or less intentionally starved millions of their own people to death, but it's not beyond arguing that it was done out of incompetence. In the case of the PRC, Mao seems to have genuinely thought this would lead to prosperity for his people--and still today his people think that it did (they say he's historically equivalent to Abraham Lincoln).