North Korea’s Kim Jong-un sounds alarm on agriculture amid reports of food shortages

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Leader says agriculture needs ‘fundamental transformation’ and makes hitting grain targets a priority as country isolated by sanctions struggles

has urged government officials to engineer a “fundamental transformation” in agricultural production, state media reported, amid fears that the country’s food shortage is worsening.

Earlier this month, South Korea’s Unification Ministry said the food situation in the North “seemed to have deteriorated”. North Korea is under strict international sanctions over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes, and its economy has been further strained by strict self-imposed border lockdowns aimed at stopping Covid-19 outbreaks.

North Korea’s pursuit of self-sufficiency means almost all its grain is produced domestically, but that has left the country vulnerable, 38 North found.

 

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FeedTheHungryNotGuns

Buy fertiliser rather than rocket fuel Kim, and give your enslaved citizens a break.

Just ask your mate Putin .🤣🤣

Stop eating might help the population from facing a famine.

Denies the established nepotistic regime can make changes that will benefit Every North Korean!

I suppose if it was Ethiopia you would all open your wallet...?

Stalin starved 3.9 million Ukrainians. These despotic megalomaniacs do love a good enforced famine.

cry me a river – who needs grain when you have ICBMs and goose stepping soldiers at your disposal?

Yes, when I look at Kim Jong Fat, I see how North Koreans are starving

It won’t affect his calorific intake.

Pretty sure Kimmy won’t be short of a dumpling whilst the people starve.

When you've got most working age men employed in the military, what do you expect?

so they hate the west and now want food ?

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