SEOUL--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 ...

North Korea has long been suffering from a chronic food shortage due to economic difficulties caused by international sanctions.

North Korean farmers are growing increasingly resentful as the ruling party's interference in their autonomy reaches new ...

GENEVA: A United Nations human rights expert has voiced alarm at what he called “widespread food shortages and malnutrition” in North Korea, which have been exacerbated by a nearly five-month ...

North Korea has unveiled a 10,000-apartment complex in the capital city of Pyongyang after its leader Kim Jong Un inspected ...

North Korea has proven amazingly resilient. There is almost no evidence of significant popular dissatisfaction with the Kim Jong Il regime, despite chronic shortages of food and fuel and the ...

when torrential rain and flooding in the North caused severe food shortages. South Korea provided 150,000 tons of rice to North Korea at that time. Seoul's humanitarian aid to Pyongyang has since ...