North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (Photo credit: Pyeongyang Press Corps/Pool/Getty Images)
[See China News November 6, 2021]North KoreabecauseCOVID-19The epidemic has hit, and the border has been closed since January 2020.North Korean defectorsRevealed to media concerned about North Korea that his family is currently sufferingfamineAs a result, the food shortage problem is very serious. With the advent of winter, the situation may worsen.
According to the British media “BBC”, Lee Sang Yong, the editor-in-chief of the South Korean “Daily NK” who specializes in disclosing information about North Korea, said that more and more orphans in North Korea are living on the streets, and many people even starve to death. Information is continuously being reported. The people at the grass-roots level have suffered more because the food shortage is worse than expected.
According to the report, it is becoming more and more difficult to obtain information from North Korea. Since January last year, the Pyongyang government has been shut down to prevent China from spreading the COVID-19 virus, and even the families of defectors who want to obtain North Korea have been shut down since South Korea. All the messages from the North Korean authorities face huge risks, because once caught by the North Korean authorities, they may be sent directly to a labor camp.
The report mentioned that North Korea has been facing food shortages for many years, but due to the impact of the epidemic, the situation has become more severe. Even Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un used the 1994 “Arduous March” famine disaster to describe the present day. The dilemma encountered caused hundreds of thousands of people to starve to death that year.
On June 3, the Korea Development Institute pointed out that it is certain that North Korea is currently experiencing a food crisis, and many families are facing malnutrition or food shortages. The agency alleged that North Koreans are now selling their only supplies in exchange for food to fill their stomachs, and people are selling all their basic family assets to buy food. Such things are unsustainable and must be resolved by immediate action.
Song Young-chae, an activist of the NGO Global Alliance to Stop the Korean Massacre, said in an interview with the British “Telegraph” that we learned from informants that the North Korean people are suffering and that they are dying.
Song Yongcai said that the famine they are currently experiencing is directly caused by poor economic management; on the other hand, money is spent on manufacturing nuclear weapons and missiles. Although South Korea has offered to provide food and other assistance, North Korea has not responded.
This South Korean think tank’s report has confirmed the statements of organizations such as the World Food Program (WFP), and other organizations have quoted internal North Korean sources as saying that in some North Korean entire families were starved to death.
United Nations: North Korea 42.4%Population malnutrition
On the 4th, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) issued a report stating that between 2018 and 2020, as many as 42.4% of the population (approximately 10.9 million people) in North Korea will be undernourished, which is much higher than the global average of 8.9%. 8.2%, and the average of 19% in African countries is much higher.
According to reports from the Yonhap News Agency and the Korea Herald, the UN’s definition of malnutrition is that the provision of habitual food consumption is not sufficient to maintain the nutritional level required for a normal and healthy life. The population of North Korea is malnourished, accounting for 42.4%. , Which is much higher than the 35.2% of Rwanda and 16.2% of Ethiopia, which is the poorest country in Africa. Only five countries in the world have worse malnutrition status than North Korea. They are 59.5% in Somalia, 48.2% in the Central African Republic, 46.8% in Haiti, 43.2% in Madagascar and 45.4% in Yemen.
According to statistics from North Korea over the years, the proportion of undernourished people is gradually increasing. It is known that the average daily calorie intake of North Korean people from 2018 to 2020 is 2075 calories, which is much lower than the average of 2950 calories in other countries and South Korea’s. 3465 cards. On the other hand, as of the end of 2020, about one-fifth of children under the age of 5 in North Korea are stunted.
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