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2008/07/30 15:35 KST
N. Korea in worst food crisis in decade: WFP

   BEIJING, July 30 (Yonhap) -- North Korea is suffering its worst food crisis since the late 1990s due to rising grain prices and a poor harvest, the U.N. food agency said Wednesday.

"We believe that the food security situation right now, in many parts of the country, is the worst that it has been since the late 1990s," Jean-Pierre de Margerie, the World Food Program's director for North Korea, said at a press conference in Beijing.