Almost 12 million North Koreans are undernourished, a new U.N. report shows, a massive surge of more than 1 million people compared to data from the same assessment last year. 

45.5% of the North Korean population was undernourished between 2020 and 2022, according to the annual “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report” published Wednesday, up from 41% from between 2019 and 2021.