Natural disasters and international sanctions have left about 3.8-million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance
Seoul — North Korea’s food production in 2018 fell to its lowest level in more than a decade as natural disasters hit the country already under crippling international sanctions over its weapons programme, the UN said on Wednesday.
A prolonged heatwave, along with typhoon and floods has taken a toll on food harvest, which posted a 9% drop from 2017 to the lowest level in more than a decade, the UN said. The UN has been struggling to rally donors behind its North Korea programmes, and said its 2018 Needs and Priorities Plan for the isolated nation was only funded at 24%.
The UN sanctions technically exempt humanitarian activities. But humanitarian aid for the North nearly ground to a halt in 2018 due to strict interpretations of bans on banking and shipping transactions with Pyongyang, as well as a travel ban for US citizens, according to a dozen officials at UN and US civilian organisations.
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