Kim asks people to eat less till 2025
Kim blamed a ”series of deviations” for the shortage of food supplies and said, ”The people’s food situation is now getting tense as the agricultural sector failed to fulfill its grain production plan.”
In June this year, Kim had urged officials to find ways to boost agricultural production, saying the country’s food situation “is now getting tense”, as per PTI report.
A source told Radio Free Asia (RFA), “Two weeks ago, they told the neighborhood watch unit meeting that our food emergency would continue until 2025.”
The food crisis has resulted from a shutdown of North Korea’s border with China, which was imposed in 2020 in order to stem the transmission of COVID-19. The North’s economy has declined further amid border closures, which has cut off trade with China. The typhoons and floods last summer have decimated crops in the North making the situation worse.
Due to border closure with China, North Korea’s economy has been hit hard as food prices have spiked, leading to starvation deaths among its population of 25 million.
