Following a year of major flood damage, pandemic shutdowns and ongoing sanctions. Kim Jong Un on June 15 said his country’s food situation is getting tense. He added that the agricultural sector had failed to fulfill its grain production plan. North Korea is said to need about 5.75 million tons of food every year to feed its people, with over 35% of the country’s population by occupation employed as agriculture workers a shortage of farming equipment and the COVID-19 pandemic have caused a shortage in food production and supply.
Despite the struggles, few experts expect that North Korea is on the brink of a famine, like the one it suffered in the 1990s, The famine killed a still-unknown number of people, with estimates ranging from between several hundred thousand to over two million. For people who lived through it, it’s said to be North Korea’s most difficult period since the Korean War.