North Koreans are encountering a new round of what has become a chronic food crisis, although those living a privileged life in the capital city of Pyongyang are ignorant to the situation in the rest of the country, defector Hyun-Seung “Arthur” Lee says.
The totalitarian state is experiencing what could be an even more severe famine than the one in the 1990s, which is believed to have killed about a million people, or 5 percent of the pre-famine population, according to a recent report by the BBC that’s based on the testimonies of three North Korean residents.
This new round of starvation follows the COVID-19 pandemic, which prompted the communist regime to seal off its northern borders with China and Russia, shutting down the flow of goods vital to feeding the country’s 26 million citizens, including grain, fertilizer, and agricultural machinery, from China….
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