Food insecurity in North Korea is deepening after it closed the border with China and took other steps against COVID-19.
FOOD INSECURITY. North Korea's border county of Kaepoong is seen from a South Korean observation post in Paju near the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas on May 17, 2019. File photo by Jung Yeon-je/AFP
"Lack of food had a devastating impact in the DPRK in the 1990s, and prospects of a further deepening ofHundreds of thousands are believed to have died during a famine in the mid to late 1990s, a period known as the"Arduous March" in the North., with many suffering malnutrition.One in 5 children under the age of 5 in the country are stunted, World Food Programme spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs told a virtual briefing on Tuesday.
North Korea's trade with China in March and April this year dropped by more than 90%, leaving many living in the border areas with no income, he said.
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