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North Korea’s Food Stocks Running Dry, 24 Million People at Risk of Starvation

03/25/2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

By Malcolm Moore – “North Korea’s government food distribution programme will run dry in May and put one-quarter of the country’s 24 million people at risk of starvation, the United Nations has warned.

The UN World Food Programme, which resumed sending food aid to North Korea in 2006, blamed flooding, foot-and-mouth disease, and an unusually cold winter for devastating food supplies to the country.

‘Vulnerable members of society are currently facing increasing shocks to their daily coping strategies, leaving them on a knife edge,’ the WFP said in a statement.”  Source.

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