North Korea secures the least food self-sufficiency: The possibility of a large famine is slim

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Bae Young-kyung = North Koreans have secured minimal food self-sufficiency, and it has been argued that the food situation is not as bad as publicly known. Experts from the South and the North analyzed this way at a discussion meeting held on the 17th by the Democratic Peace and Unification Advisory Conference on the subject of'How to see the changes in North Korea' at the Grand Walkerhill Seoul Art Hall. Kim Seok-jin, a senior research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification, said, "It is unlikely that a famine like the mid-to-late 1990s will occur in North Korea." He said, "If you look at the statistics of food production in North Korea by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) or Rural Development Administration, North Korea is considered a country that is very short of food." It is not comprehensive,” he pointed out. Senior Research Fellow Kim concluded that “the North Korean residents are securing ...