North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged government officials to engineer a 'fundamental transformation' in agricultural production, state media reported on Tuesday, amid fears that the country's food shortage is worsening.
Earlier this month, South Korea's Unification Ministry said the food situation in the North "seemed to have deteriorated".
In his address at Monday's meeting, KCNA said Kim mentioned the "importance of the growth of the agricultural productive forces" in ensuring socialist construction. The full extent of the food shortages in North Korea is unclear, but in a January report, the U.S.-based 38 North project said that food insecurity was at its worst since famines that devastated the country in the 1990s.
North Korea's pursuit of self-sufficiency means almost all its grain is produced domestically, but that has left the country vulnerable, 38 North found.
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