The following article is an opinion piece by Heeje Lee of the Korea Health Policy Project at Harvard Medical School. Views expressed in opinion articles are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News.

In an op-ed for Newsweek, Gordon Chang claims that international food aid for North Korea doesn’t actually go toward ending hunger in the isolated and impoverished country. Instead, he argues, such aid has only worsened the DPRK’s chronic food insecurity, as the government has diverted aid destined for the country’s people in ways that apparently support the development of weapons