North Korea has over recent decades suffered serious food shortages, including famine in the 1990s, often a result of natural disasters such as floods damaging harvests.
SEOUL, South Korea – A North Korean food crisis appears to have deteriorated, South Korea said on Wednesday, February 15, as a newspaper reported that North Korea has cut rations to its soldiers for the first time in more than two decades.has effectively acknowledged serious food shortages, South Korea’s unification ministry said, referring to a North Korean state media report this month about plans for an “urgent” ruling party meeting on agriculture.
South Korea’s DongA Ilbo newspaper said on Wednesday that North Korea has reduced daily food rations to its soldiers for the first time since 2000, citing an unidentified senior South Korean official. North Korea’s state news agency KCNA reported on February 6 that the Workers’ Party of Korea had called a meeting of the party’s Central Committee for late February for the “very important and urgent task to establish the correct strategy for the development of agriculture”.Last month, the US-based monitoring group 38 North said North Korea’s “food availability has likely fallen below the bare minimum with regard to human needs”, with food insecurity at its worst since the famines of the 1990s.
“North Korea’s food situation doesn’t seem very good,” Kwon told parliament. “We’re seeing a number of signs…though it doesn’t yet look like there’s a stream of people starving to death.”
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