North Korea faces worst famine in two decades as UN sanctions bite

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North Korea faces worst famine in two decades as UN sanctions bite
International Business Times
Roger Baird

Sanctions and the worst drought for almost 20 years continue to cause hardship for millions of North Koreans, while the country's leaders press ahead with its nuclear programme.

Japanese documentary maker Jiro Ishimaru, who runs a network of citizen journalists inside North Korea, said ordinary North Koreans face a daily struggle to eat, with the majority of food going to the nation's million-strong army.

"For one thing, there are too many soldiers to feed," Ishimaru told the Guardian.

He added that even in the army food is creamed off for elite officers.

He said: "Corruption is rife, so that by the time senior military officers have taken their share of food provisions to sell for profit on the private market, there is next to nothing left for ordinary soldiers."

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