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North Korea Faces Worst Food Crisis in Decade function
Published: October 23, 2008
UNITED NATIONS — North Korea is facing its worst food crisis in a decade, with a large shortfall expected this year, according to a new report released by the United Nations on Thursday. At the same time, the number of children suffering from diarrhea has increased sharply.
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Millions of people in the country are facing “severe deprivations” not seen since the mid-1990s, the report said, with the shortfall of food expected to reach more than one and a half million tons this year.
While the military and the elite are not suffering from cutbacks, more than three-quarters of all households have reduced their food consumption and more than half are eating only two meals per day, the report said.
“Sadly, even though the harvest was getting better, we have had devastating floods in 2006 and 2007,” Vitit Muntarbhorn, the author of the report, said at a news conference. “Over the past year we have had very worrying information of a very chronic food shortage.”
Mr. Muntarbhorn, a Thai law professor who serves as the special rapporteur for human rights in North Korea, has not been allowed to enter the country.
Child malnutrition and illnesses have been rising, with nearly twice as many children suffering from diarrhea than the number recorded in the last United Nations nutritional survey conducted with the government in 2004, the report said. Two-thirds of the country’s 23 million people have a poor diet, it said.
The World Food Program, which started a special program to reach 1.9 million North Koreans in 2006, is now expanding it in the hopes of helping 6.5 million people, Mr. Muntarbhorn said. The government has been more cooperative with the program, he said, allowing the agency to monitor the distribution of aid and to conduct some random checks at the local level.
The report painted a grim picture of other human rights issues in North Korea, perhaps the world’s most closed country. Government permission is required to own a cellphone or computer, and radios come preset to the government station.
Mr. Muntarbhorn said that continuing talks aimed at halting North Korea’s nuclear weapons program excluded human rights issues, but should be used to provide some leverage for improving the human rights situation. The talks are being conducted by a group of nations that include the United States, Russia, China, Japan and South Korea.
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