SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has modernized agricultural facilities in a bid to help tackle its food shortage as it seeks to achieve its economic goals set for this year, according to Pyongyang’s state media Friday. The North has modernized livestock breeding farms in the northeastern border city of Rason, along with [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has mobilized residents and school children to pick wild greens for soldiers to make up for the country’s food shortage, the U.S.-based Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Monday. A North Korean source told the RFA that the impoverished country has brought in middle and high school students [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is caught in a vicious circle largely because of its severe food shortage problems, according to local forest expert’s recently published book. In a book titled “The Loss of North Korea’s Forests Turning the Korean Peninsula into Desert,” written by Kim Seong-il, a professor of forest science [...]