Monday, February 27, 2023

North Korea Holds Rare Meeting On Farming Amid Food Shortage

Farmers plant rice using a rice seedling transplanter during a media event at the Chongsan Cooperative Farm near Nampho City on May 9, 2022. © Kim Won Jin, AFP  

France 24: North Korea's Kim opens farming summit amid reports of food shortages 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has opened a key party meeting to discuss agricultural development, state media said Monday, following a report of "grave" food shortages in the isolated country. 

Normally such meetings are convened only once or twice a year, but the plenary comes just two months after a previous one, which also focused on agricultural issues. 

The unusual frequency of the meetings focused on agriculture has fuelled speculation that there may be serious food shortages in North Korea now.  

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WNU Editor: North Korea has always had a crisis over food production. But it looks like it is getting worse .... North Korea on brink of return to 1990s famine as 'food rations' given to troops (Express). 

North Korea Holds Rare Meeting On Farming Amid Food Shortage  

North Korea Holds Rare Meeting on Farming Amid Food Shortage -- AP  

North Korea calls agriculture meeting amid food crisis -- UPI  

North Korea scrambles to address country's worsening food shortage -- NYPost  

N Korea holds meeting on farming amid fears of food shortages -- Al Jazeera

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nothing better illustrates the failure of the Communist system than the inability of communist nation
s to feed their own people.

Roger29palms said...


Definitely a misallocation of limited resources as in nuclear weaponry. Not to mention not much positive for crops in terms of land and climate.