According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, about half the country was already malnourished before the pandemic. Now the situation is coming to a head
Out of digits officersAs always, nobody talks. So it was in the days of Pandemic for the number of victims and infected since then covidand the same logic is also applied to the food crisis that the North Korea experienced and continually worsened. Indeed, chronic food shortages are leading to an increase in starvation deaths: it would be the country’s most difficult moment since the famine years Ninety As a result, by some estimates, three million people died. The isolation and the closure Three-year limits have exacerbated an already difficult situation, as this was actually the case before the pandemicOrganization of the United Nations for food and agriculture, about half the country was malnourished. For the analyst of Peterson Institute, Lucas Rengifo-KellerThe food supply is complicated just to fulfill the Minimum requirements: Trade data and satellite images as well as evaluations of United Nations and the South Korean authorities agree on this aspect. And the problem does not only affect the lowest strata of the population. In any case, even if food were distributed fairly, which is not the case, there would still be deaths from starvation.
As widespread as the food crisis is, experts say there are no signs of mass deaths or starvation, and the forthcoming meeting of the ruling Labor Party is likely to bolster support for the leader Kim Jong Unwhich is pursuing its nuclear weapons program despite intense US-led pressure and sanctions United States. “Kim Jong Un it cannot steadily advance its nuclear program if it cannot solve the problem nutritional problembasically because public support would be shaken,” he said Lim Eul-chulProfessor at the Department of Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University a Seoul. “The meeting was convened to consolidate the unit internal and brainstorm ideas to tackle the food shortage.”
An extended plenary session of the Central Committee of the Labor Party is planned for the end of February. Be to plan Specific is unknown but the mighty one politburo the party has previously stated that “an inflection point is required to dynamically promote a change radical in agricultural development. The meeting will be the party’s first plenary session convened for discussion only subjects agriculturalalthough they are often a central theme in larger conferences North Korea. The increase of production Wheat was one of 12 economic priorities approved by the party at a December plenary session. It’s difficult to know the exact situation of North Korea, which kept its borders virtually closed during the pandemic.