North Korea’s Kim Visits Typhoon-Hit Farms Amid Food Shortages

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un has inspected typhoon-hit farmlands, after

tropical storm Khaun swept over the Korean Peninsula last week amid concerns over a food crisis in the Country.

Kim praised the Military’s efforts to salvage crops and said the troops were mobilised because they cannot lose a patch of farmland “to the natural rampage on the agricultural front directly related with the people’s living,”  a report said.

The North has suffered serious food shortages in recent decades, including famine in the 1990s, often as a result of natural disasters.

International experts have warned that border closures during the COVID-19 pandemic worsened matters.

“He made sure that helicopters and light transport aircrafts of air force units … were mobilised as a step to improve the growth of crops in flooded fields, and personally organised and commanded the work for spraying pesticides,” the report said.

Khanun, which was downgraded from a typhoon to a tropical storm, made landfall on the Korean peninsula last week, prompting South Korean Authorities to evacuate more than 14,000 people and close schools in flood-hit areas.

REUTERS