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UN: North Korea faces potential food crisis
North Korea faces a looming food crisis due to floods last year that devastated the country's agricultural heartland, exacerbating already perilous shortages, the U.N. food agency said Wednesday...The North's annual food deficit is expected to nearly double from 2007 to 1.83 million tons, according...
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- News Source: International Business Times | about 1 year agoNorth Korea faces a looming food crisis due to floods last year that devastated the country's agricultural heartland, exacerbating already perilous shortages, the U.N. food agency said Wednesday...The North's annual food deficit is expected to nearly...
- News Source: Reuters | about 1 year agoNorth Korea faces a looming food and humanitarian crisis after a poor harvest that has caused food prices to skyrocket and supplies to dwindle, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said on Wednesday. North Korea) is clearly bad and getting...
- News Source: BBC | about 1 year agoThe situation there is "clearly bad and getting worse", according to a World Food Programme official, who added that help was needed to avert tragedy. North Korea has been dependent on international food aid for years. But severe flooding last year...
- News Source: Channel NewsAsia | about 1 year agoTiming is running out to avert a humanitarian tragedy in North Korea due to acute food shortages, a United Nations agency warned Wednesday. "The food security situation ... Tony Banbury, the World Food Programme's (WFP) Asia director. "It is...
- News Source: International Business Times | about 1 year agoThe U.N. food agency warns that North Korea faces a food crisis...The World Food Program's director for Asia, Tony Banbury, says the situation in the North is "clearly bad and getting worse." He says it is increasingly likely that outside aid would...
- News Source: Turkish Press | about 1 year agoSouth Korea and the United States have discussed delaying a scheduled reduction in the number of US troops based on the peninsula, a Seoul military official said Wednesday. "Nothing has been decided but there were discussions on this issue," the...
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