North Korea party meeting set to discuss 'urgent' food issue

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This comes amid a possible sign of worsening food insecurity as the country's economic isolation deepens amid a defiant nuclear weapons push.

Farmers manage rice seedlings at the Namsa Co-op Farm of Rangnang District in Pyongyang.North Korea has scheduled a major political conference Feb. 2023, to discuss the “urgent task” of improving its agricultural sector, a possible sign that the country’s food insecurity is getting worse as its economic isolation deepens amid a defiant nuclear weapons push. - AP

"It is a very important and urgent task to establish the correct strategy for the development of agriculture and take relevant measures for the immediate farming ... to promote the overall development of socialist construction,” the KCNA said. "The government will closely watch North Korea’s food situation and internal trends,” said Koo. He said South Korea estimates that North Korean food production fell by about 4% in 2022 to 4.5 million tons.

In a study published on the North Korea-focused 38 North website last month, analyst Lucas Rengifo-Keller said food insecurity in North Korea is likely at its worst since the country's 1990s famine that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

 

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