Correction: This article has been amended due to a mistranslation. The shipment contained 25,000 (metric) tonnes, not 25,000 tons.

A food aid shipment containing 25,000 tonnes of wheat arrived in North Korea from Russia on Thursday, according to a Facebook post published by the Russian embassy in Pyongyang.

The shipment comes as new worries have emerged in recent weeks about the DPRK’s food insecurity problems and whether they may have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and Pyongyang’s related border closures.

“On May 14, Ambassador A. Matsegora and Embassy diplomats visited the port of Nampho, where a cargo ship under