North Korea running out of food

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North Korea running out of food

By North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy

Posted 6 hours 22 minutes ago

Foreign aid agencies are warning more than 6 million North Koreans need urgent

food aid amid warnings the communist state's public stocks of food will run out

within weeks.

The joint statement by foreign aid agencies based in Pyongyang warns food

production in North Korea has collapsed because of the cold winter and flooding,

with crops of potatoes, wheat and barley all failing.

They say more than 4,000 tonnes of cereals and blended food aid is urgently

needed, with more than 6 million North Koreans desperately requiring assistance.

It is also feared Pyongyang's food distribution system will collapse as early as

May.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, famine, world-politics, north-korea