This article has been updated to include comments from the FAO
A joint food security assessment from UN agencies working in North Korea published on Friday concluded that 10.1 million in the DPRK were food insecure, with aberrant weather affecting harvest yields in the DPRK last year.
The assessment was conducted by the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), who sent a team to North Korea from 29 March to 12 April 2019.
“Overall, it is estimated that 10.1 million people (40 percent of the population) are food insecure and in urgent
This article has been updated to include comments from the FAO
A joint food security assessment from UN agencies working in North Korea published on Friday concluded that 10.1 million in the DPRK were food insecure, with aberrant weather affecting harvest yields in the DPRK last year.