SEOUL - North Korea's official newspaper said on Wednesday (Feb 22) that relying on external aid to cope with food shortages would be equal to taking 'poisoned candy', urging economic self-reliance despite deepening hardships amid sanctions and coronavirus lockdowns. The isolated country has suffered food shortages in recent years, reeling from floods and typhoons, international sanctions aimed at curbing its...
A North Korean boy holds a spade in a corn field in area damaged by floods and typhoons in the Soksa-Ri collective farm in the South Hwanghae province on Sep 29, 2011.SEOUL - North Korea's official newspaper said on Wednesday that relying on external aid to cope with food shortages would be equal to taking "poisoned candy", urging economic self-reliance despite deepening hardships amid sanctions and coronavirus lockdowns.
Most UN agencies and Western relief groups have since left North Korea, with China remaining one of the few sources of external food assistance. "It is a mistake to try to boost the economy by accepting and eating this poisoned candy," the commentary said. Seoul's Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korea affairs, declined to comment on the report, but said on Tuesday that there appeared to have been a recent increase in deaths from starvation in some North Korean provinces.
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