North Koreans at Growing Risk of Starvation

The Economist: “Reports of terrible hunger are emerging from the closed-off state. The UN reckons that between 2019 and 2021, 42% of North Koreans were malnourished. And as a result of poor weather conditions and a shortage of fertilizer—in part due to the country’s self-imposed three-year quarantine—it had an especially poor harvest last year.”