North Korea Facing Food Shortages (Again)

North Koreans work on a rice field during the harvest outside the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. © 2005 Reuters

Washington Post: Dry winter sparks fears of another food crisis in North Korea

SEOUL — As North Korea heads toward the “barley hump” — the lean season before the rice and corn harvest in the summer — aid agencies are warning that an unusually dry winter is compounding chronic food shortages in the impoverished country.

And while North Korea may no longer be in a state of famine, malnutrition remains such a widespread problem that even slight changes in weather can have an outsized impact on ordinary people’s food supply.

WNU Editor: Every country that has run their agribusiness on the principles of a collective farm have failed .... and sadly for the people of North Korea .... they are probably the last country in the world that is trying to make such a corrupt and insanely stupid system to work.