North Korea food shortages

To cope with the country’s food crisis – and reduce dependence on China – North Korea is hoping to scale up trade with receptive countries.  

Locals report increasing starvation deaths and disappearances among their neighbors, but Pyongyang is most concerned with preventing the harsh reality from souring planned celebrations.

The world must send food aid, specifically rice, to North Korea to avoid a humanitarian disaster.

Dismal trade figures for 2021 attest to the toll the North’s border closures are taking on its food supply.

If North Korea’s extreme self-inflicted COVID isolation isn’t enough to break the Kim regime, external sanctions have no chance.

Soldiers are going beyond robbing homes and are now even targeting food storage facilities run by government agencies

The COVID-19 pandemic and U.S.-led economic sanctions have pushed the North toward an economic catastrophe.

It is vitally important for the world to remember the people of North Korea, not just its nuclear weapons.

Ever-tightening U.S. sanctions have not achieved policy goals, while severely limiting humanitarian activities inside North Korea.

North Korea almost never reacts to reports in foreign media. What's different this time?

To really understand how food is distributed, and who gets to eat, we have to also understand precisely how the markets work.