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Ifang Bremer
Ifang Bremer is a Seoul Correspondent at NK News. He has worked on investigations for The Guardian and The Observer and previously wrote features on Korea for Dutch newspaper NRC.
A drought threatens to disrupt farming in the DPRK this year, state media reported Tuesday, a development that threatens to worsen food shortages in a country that experienced a self-described “food crisis” just last year.
The front page of Tuesday’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper featured on-the-ground reports of “nationwide efforts” by soldiers, workers and youths to save every “single grain of rice” and ensure no crops are damaged.