Hundreds of thousands of North Korean children are too short for their age because they don’t have enough food to eat, the U.N. has assessed in a new report.

Over 285,000 North Korean children were suffering impaired growth in 2022, according to the annual report on child malnutrition report jointly published by the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank Group (WGB) and World Health Organization (WHO) last week. 

Titled “Levels and Trends in Child Malnutrition,” the report estimates that 16.8% of North Korean children under 5 years old experienced stunting, which refers to a child who is too short