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- People in North Korea have told the BBC food is so scarce their neighbours have starved to death. Exclusive interviews gathered inside the world's most isolated state suggest the situation is the worst it has been since the 1990s, experts say. The government sealed its borders in 2020, cutting off vital supplies.
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65881803North Korea: Residents tell BBC of neighbours starving to death
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Jun 14, 2023 · North Korea has never been able to produce enough food for its 26 million people. When it shut its border in January 2020, authorities stopped importing grain from China, as well as...
Defectors based in South Korea have told us that their families in the North are going hungry. There is a concern as winter approaches that the most vulnerable will starve.
Mar 4, 2023 · Concerns about North Korea’s chronic food shortages are growing, with multiple sources suggesting this week that deaths due to starvation are likely.
- Paula Hancocks
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Nov 5, 2021 · Defectors based in South Korea have told us that their families in the North are going hungry. There is a concern as winter approaches that the most vulnerable will starve.
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- Laura Bicker
Jun 23, 2021 · North Korea has suffered deadly famines in the past and now its leader, Kim Jong-un, has warned of severe food shortages ahead. It's very difficult to get reliable information out of the...
Jan 25, 2024 · SEOUL, Jan 25 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for ways to be found to improve economic development after saying that a failure to provide people with basic living...
Mar 21, 2023 · The UN reckons that between 2019 and 2021, 42% of North Koreans were malnourished. And as a result of poor weather conditions and a shortage of fertiliser—in part due to the country’s self ...
