A chronic food crisis has descended upon North Korea again, but those living a privileged life in the capital city of Pyongyang are ignorant to the situation in the rest of the country, said defector Hyun-Seung “Arthur” Lee.
According to the recent report by the BBC, based on testimonies of three North Korean residents, the totalitarian state is experiencing what could be an even more severe famine than the one in the 1990s, which is believed to have wiped out about a million people, or five percent of the pre-famine population.
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….