By Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein That’s what the FAO says in a recent estimate. Here’s the Yonhap summary of the FAO report: North Korea requires about 641,000 tons of grain this year as the i...
By Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein North Korea imported luxury goods from China for at least $640 million, says one South Korean lawmaker. Reuters: “Kim has bought lavish items from China and ot...
Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Reuters: North Korea on Thursday called for an “all-out battle” against record temperatures that threaten crops in a country already grappling with tough internat...
By Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Since early 2016, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has been sounding the alarm bells on North Korea’s food situation. In an interview a few ...
According to Yonhap: North Korea has been providing just 360 grams of daily food rations to each of its citizens in the second quarter of this year, far below the United Nations’ recommendation...
https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2016/06/16/dprk-food-rations-at-60-of-un-recommendation/
By Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Some days ago, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) sounded the alarm bells on North Korean food production. The drought of last summer, among other factors...
By Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein This summer and fall has seen a somewhat contradictory stream of information about the North Korean food situation. First there were the drought warnings, which w...
https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2015/11/10/north-korean-food-shortage-news-roundup-october-and-november/
By Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Voice of America reports: The U.N. food aid agency said Thursday that its aid to North Korea’s vulnerable people dropped 44 percent last month because of a la...
https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2015/10/05/world-food-program-north-korea-funds-down/
By Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein This certainly has been the season of contradictory information on North Korea’s food supply. The North Korean government is celebrating and claiming success of ...
By Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein During the past few months, the World Food Program (WFP) has made reoccurring pleas for increased food assistance to North Korea to alleviate the food shortages ex...