SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has opened a key party meeting to discuss agricultural development, state media said Monday, following a report of 'grave' food shortages in the isolated country.
Normally such meetings are convened only once or twice a year, but the plenary comes just two months after a previous one, which also focused on agricultural issues.The unusual frequency of the meetings focused on agriculture has fueled speculation that there may be serious food shortages in North Korea now.Kim chaired the opening on Sunday of a plenary meeting of top ruling party officials to 'analyze and review...
South Korea's unification ministry says that there have been reports of starvation deaths in the North.'We judge the food shortages there to be grave,' Koo Byoung-sam, the ministry spokesman, said last week, adding Pyongyang appeared to have requested food aid from the World Food Program.Nuclear-armed North Korea, which is under multiple sets of sanctions over its weapons programs, has long struggled to feed itself.
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