UN warns of worsening
hunger in North Korea
Workers stand near a field in Songchon
County, in North Korea.

The Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO) has warned against worsening
hunger in North Korea as the country has
hit a record low in food production since
2010 due to poor rainfall.

According to a statement by FAO, North
Korea produced about 5.4 million tons of
food, including cereals, soybeans and
potatoes in 2015, down from 5.9 million
tons it produced in 2014.

The country is facing a shortage of
394,000
tons of cereal, the biggest gap since
2011-2012, the statement added.
“Given the tight food supplies in 2015/16,
the country’s food security situation is
expected to deteriorate from the previous
year when most households were already
estimated to have poor or borderline food
consumption levels,” the agency said.

In May 2015, the United Nations had
warned of a looming food crisis in North
Korea due to drought, which the country’s
official media described as the worst in
100
years.

Poor rainfall and low availability of water
for irrigation caused the production of
paddy rice, the country’s main staple, to
drop by 25 percent to 1.9 million tons,
FAO
said.

North Korea has suffered regular chronic
food shortages.

UN figures show that over 70 percent of
North Koreans are food insecure and 28
percent of children under the age of five
have suffered stunted growth due to
malnutrition.

The country has come under the most
crippling sanctions by the UN and the
West
recently over its nuclear missile tests.

On Thursday, South Korea claimed
that North Korea had fired what
appeared to have been an intermediate
range ballistic missile but it crashed
seconds after the test launch.


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That "tankuruku" leader of yours'll soon be nearing the err of Gahdaffi.,building silly weapons when hunger they knack ur people.

Kim no dey hia word...His stubborness is bringing so much suffering to his people.