SEOUL: A North Korean food crisis appears to have deteriorated, South Korea said on Wednesday (Feb 15), as a newspaper reported that North Korea has cut rations to its soldiers for the first time in more than two decades. North Korea has effectively acknowledged serious food shortages, South Korea's u
SEOUL: A North Korean food crisis appears to have deteriorated, South Korea said on Wednesday , as a newspaper reported that North Korea has cut rations to its soldiers for the first time in more than two decades.
North Korea has over recent decades suffered serious food shortages, including famine in the 1990s, often a result of natural disasters such as floods damaging harvests. The unification ministry said it could not confirm details of the media report but it and other agencies were monitoring the situation.
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