“Significant” numbers of vulnerable North Koreans in small and medium-sized cities are starving and suffering from malnutrition due to food shortages, though the crisis does not yet approach the severity of the mass famine in the 1990s, according to Seoul’s unification ministry.
Multiple levels of the ROK government, including the intelligence agency and unification ministry, share the assessment that food insecurity has not yet reached a level that “DPRK authorities cannot control,” a high-level ministry official told reporters Thursday.
“Significant” numbers of vulnerable North Koreans in small and medium-sized cities are starving and suffering from malnutrition due to food shortages, though the crisis does not yet approach the severity of the mass famine in the 1990s, according to Seoul’s unification ministry.
Multiple levels of the ROK government, including the intelligence agency and unification ministry, share the assessment that food insecurity has not yet reached a level that “DPRK authorities cannot control,” a high-level ministry official told reporters Thursday.
Jeongmin Kim is the Lead Correspondent at NK News and Editorial Director at KOREA PRO, based in Seoul. Kim covers inter-Korean relations and North and South Korean foreign and military affairs. Kim has covered the 2022 ROK presidential election on the ground, and prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency’s Seoul bureau. Follow her on Twitter @jeongminnkim
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