Concerns about North Korea’s chronic food shortages are growing, with multiple sources suggesting this week that deaths due to starvation are likely. Some experts say the country has hit its ...

SEOUL, Feb 15 (Reuters) - A North Korean food crisis appears to have deteriorated, South Korea said on Wednesday, as a newspaper reported that North Korea has cut rations to its soldiers for the ...

North Korea’s authoritarian leader, Kim Jon Un, has even publicly broached the subject of a “food shortage” plaguing the nation and promised to boost grain and other agricultural production.

Rice prices in North Korea have hit record highs, nearly doubling in recent months. Kim Jong-un has been tightening his grip over the market in hopes of increasing both market control as well as ...

The directives have come straight from North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, who has called for his military to become “a driving force” in increasing food production. It is both an economic ...

The head of the United Nations agency responsible for alleviating world hunger is heaping praise on the government of North Korea after a breakthrough visit to the reclusive country, the first ...