Home North Korea
NorthKorea
2010/02/10 09:32 KST
Food shortage worsens in N. Korea: official

  
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's food shortage is expected to further worsen this year, as the communist state's grain output in 2009 is believed to have fallen from the previous year, a government official in Seoul said Wednesday.

The North is estimated to have produced 4.1 million tons of grain last year, a drop of about 200,000 tons compared to 2008, the Unification Ministry official said on condition of anonymity.