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North Korea’s food shortage may worsen, agency says

Posted by Matt in April 16th, 2008

The World Food Program warns that the country will need massive aid to prevent widespread hunger.

The ravages of floods and soured diplomacy have turned North Korea’s chronic food shortages into an imminent humanitarian crisis, the World Food Program warned Wednesday, declaring that the secretive dictatorship will require massive food aid in the coming months if it is to avert widespread hunger.

The United Nations agency projects that North Korea’s food shortages will be double last year’s deficit. Prices on food items including rice, potatoes and pork have soared 25% over the last three weeks in the capital, Pyongyang, a bastion for the regime’s loyalists.

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