But they insist on access to rural North Korea and reliable information on the resources the regime still can muster to meet the crisis. It's a reasonable request. As any relief worker could tell you, the percentage of food aid that actually makes it into the mouths of starving people - ...
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, striking a delicate balance between sustaining economic activity and safeguarding public health has become a crucial concern. The border closures for COVID-19 prevention have further intensified concerns for North Korea, whi
Hunger-related deaths are nearly inevitable, and a dynamic is being put in place that will carry the crisis into 2009. The long-run solution to North Korea's chronic food insecurity problems is a revitalization of industry, which would allow North Korea to export industrial products, earn ...
worst of the food crisis has passed, but shortages are still there, and the country depends on staples from China, South Korea, and, when allowed, from the U.N. World Food Program to stave off mass starvation.11 During the 1990s, the inefficiencies of North Korea’s centrally pla...
If North Korea’s reputation as a place of hunger, hardship and repression was not bad enough, scientists have now discovered that it is too grim even for vultures. …Eurasian black vultures are no longer bothering to stop over in North Korea as they fly from their breeding grounds in Mongo...
N. Korea: Drought could worsen hunger crisis It is still unclear who will replace Ri as chief of the army's General Staff, but Pyongyang announced Tuesday that a lesser-known general, Hyon Yong Chol, had been promoted to vice marshal. Three other military officials ha...
the most detailed account yet of life in north korea’s gulags. kang was asked to speak around the world, touring ivy league schools and european conferences. president george w. bush invited him to visit the white house, where they discussed his homeland’s growing human rights crisis. “...
The crossing has created a fresh crisis for Washington in its dealings with the nuclear-armed state. More on North Korea North Koreans 'blow themselves up with grenades rather than risk capture', say Ukraine soldiers Volodymyr Zelenskyy offers captured North Korean soldiers for Ukrainians hel...
This article argues that the dominant paradigm for understanding and explaining north Korean domestic and international politics is in crisis. This 'securitization' paradigm is divided into its %lsquo;bad' and 'mad' elements and is derived from the crudest of Cold War politics and theories. It ...
food assistance programme for North Korea since 2000. ORIGINAL POST: From the Mercy Corps web site (July 1, 2008): Mercy Corps is taking the lead in a yearlong distribution of 100,000 metric tons of food to quell rampant hunger in North Korea. We have been asked by the U.S. ...