the north korea food crisis

If you think you’ve got it bad, spare a thought for the people of North Korea. They’ve lived under an extreme communist regime for decades and the toll is starting to tell. No economic future, no tourism, no contact with the outside world, no work and no food. Life is dire in North Korea.

North Korean farmers work in a field of a collective farm in the area damaged by recent floods and typhoons in the South Hwanghae province September 30, 2011. In March, the World Food Programme (WFP) estimated that 6 million North Koreans needed food aid and a third of children were chronically malnourished or stunted.

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