North Korea’s top leaders appear to be scrambling ... South Korean ministry officials said. Food insecurity has worsened as authorities tightened controls over private grain sales in markets, ...

Concerns about North Korea’s chronic food shortages are growing, with multiple sources suggesting this week that deaths due to starvation are likely. Some experts say the country has hit its ...

North Korean rice prices, which broke through 10,000 won per kilogram for the first time in early June, are holding steady at ...

The majority of North Koreans who resettled in South Korea over the last decade said they never received government rations in the isolated state and had to rely on an informal market to survive ...

There’s little doubt that North Korea’s chronic food shortages worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and speculation about the country’s food insecurity has flared as its top leaders ...

Efforts by North Korean authorities to tighten controls and restrict market activities have also worsened the situation, he said. "I believe this year North Korea is facing its worst food ...

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un held a major political meeting to address the country's agriculture as the country battles one of its worst food shortage since Kim took power in 2011.

North Korea’s authoritarian leader, Kim Jon Un, has even publicly broached the subject of a “food shortage” plaguing the nation and promised to boost grain and other agricultural production. 7 ...

Concerns about North Korea’s chronic food shortages are growing, with multiple sources suggesting this week that deaths due to starvation are likely. Some experts say the country has hit its ...