Food shortages in rural North Korea have caused many deaths and a vast famine is expected. The food shortage is very similar to the famine North Korea faced in the 1990s; which caused 2 million deaths.
An unidentified North Korean official has said that, “so far, mass deaths have not occurred as people have become more used to starvation than in the 1990s, but famine is a matter of time.”
The food shortage is a result of major floods that occurred last year that ruined many crops.
North Korea has been receiving food aid since the 1990s but it refusing help from South Korea because of its criticisms.
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