North Korea’s Food Supply ‘Precarious’

North Korea faces grave food shortages again this year, and food production could drop unless rainfall increases before the harvest, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said. “The current food supply situation still remains precarious,” the Rome-based FAO said in a report after a joint FAO-World Food Program mission visited the country from June 20 to July 1. “Approaching its sixth year of food shortages, therefore, the country still requires large-scale food assistance to ensure adequate nutritional standards.”