Crop shortfall in North Korea will worsen food security

North Korea suffered its first downturn in food production in five years, a 9-percent drop during 2015 to 5.4 million tonnes, says the Food and Agriculture Organization. The smaller harvest “is expected to worsen food security in the country,” says the UN agency. “Most households were already estimated to have poor or borderline food consumption… » Read More

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