The North Korean government plans to take tighter control of its agricultural sector in order to overcome an ongoing food shortage, according to state media.

There’s little doubt that North Korea’s chronic food shortages worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and speculation about the country’s food insecurity has flared as i… ...

North Korean people have suffered for decades from food shortages and famines. A famine in the mid-1990s is believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of people.

Concerns about North Korea’s chronic food shortages are growing, with multiple sources suggesting this week that deaths due to starvation are likely.

North Korea is undergoing the worst period of food insecurity it has faced since a mass famine devastated the country almost 30 years ago, a report by U.S.-based monitoring website 38 North said.

Three people told the BBC that they are fighting starvation as North Korea continues to isolate itself from the rest of the world.

Yet, thanks to satellite imagery and the internet, North Korea's secretive world is gradually being unveiled. Here is a series of remarkable photographs showing aspects of North Korea's hidden world ...

North Korea on brink of return to 1990s famine as 'food rations' given to troops The reticent Asian nation faces its biggest humanitarian crisis in recent times but is refusing support from ...

There’s little doubt that North Korea’s chronic food shortages worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and speculation about the country’s food insecurity has flared as its top leaders ...