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 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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A roadside market in North Korea as seen in October 2015. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Uwe Brodrecht Subscribe for ads-free reading Recently there have been reports from inside North Korea that a ban ...

North Korea hosted a dog meat cooking contest in Pyongyang to elevate culinary standards for the red meat, state media has ...

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 ...