SEOUL – Leading members of North Korea’s ruling party will meet in February to discuss the “urgent” task of improving the country’s agricultural sector, as international experts say food insecurity has worsened amid sanctions and Covid-19 lockdowns.
“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 in the present stage of the struggle to promote the overall development of socialist construction,” the report said. In January, the US-based 38 North programme, which monitors North Korea, said in a report that “food availability has likely fallen below the bare minimum with regard to human needs”, with food insecurity at its worst since the famines of the 1990s.
“The regime, which fears internal competition and its own demise, has so far proved itself unwilling to pursue such reforms.”
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