SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Around one in six North Korean children under the age of 5 suffer from stunted growth due to malnutrition, an international report showed Saturday. The stunting rate of the children in the age group in the impoverished state was estimated at 16.8 percent, or 285,000 children, in 2022, according [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 40 percent of North Koreans are undernourished, a U.N. report showed Thursday amid concerns of food security in the impoverished country. According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 report co-published by U.N. agencies, including the Food and Agriculture Organization, the U.N. [...]
TOKYO, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Government and private sector donors have pledged more than US$27billion at the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit this week to address the global malnutrition and hunger crisis. Represented by five Heads of State and Government, 45 countries with high burdens of malnutrition and a dozen donors delivered renewed [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A government survey confirmed Wednesday many one-person households here have abnormal eating habits and are vulnerable to malnutrition. One in three people living alone skip breakfast, according to the Korea Rural Economic Institute, a state-funded think tank. It conducted a survey of 500 single-person households and the same number [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — One of six North Korean children under age 5 have been suffering from chronic malnutrition, a report showed Wednesday, raising alarm over food situations in the North. The portion of underweight children suffering from malnutrition accounted for 15.2 percent of all of North Korea’s children under age 5 as [...]