{"id":406,"date":"2023-10-26T10:13:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T08:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/?p=406"},"modified":"2023-10-26T10:13:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T08:13:15","slug":"north-korea-food-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/north-korea-food-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Food Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are <a title=\"worries\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">concerns<\/a> that North Korea is <a title=\"going through\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">experiencing<\/a> a food crisis among its population.\u00a0There have been deaths <a title=\"because of\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">due to<\/a> <a title=\"to die from hunger\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">starvation<\/a> and the <a title=\"not enough\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">lack of<\/a> food.<\/p>\r\n<p>Experts say\u00a0 the food <a title=\"not enough of\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">shortage<\/a> may be a <a title=\"to manage something badly all the time\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">chronic mismanagement<\/a> by North Korea&#8217;s <a title=\"the people who rule a country\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">government<\/a>. Farming <a title=\"machines and other tools you need to do something\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">equipment<\/a> cannot be repaired because there are not enough <a title=\"not used\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">spare<\/a> parts. There is a not enough <a title=\"a substance that is put on the soil to make plants grow\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">fertilizer<\/a>\u00a0 to make <a title=\"top layer of the earth; where plants grow\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">soils<\/a> better. <a title=\"also\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">In addition<\/a>, natural disasters, like <a title=\"when land is completely covered with water\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">floods<\/a> and <a title=\"a tropical storm\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">typhoons<\/a> destroy farmland. This has led to a 4% <a title=\"when something goes down\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">drop<\/a> in food production.<\/p>\r\n<p>Only 20% of the country is <a title=\"here: to have the right soil for farming\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">suitable<\/a> for farming.\u00a0 Because of North Korea&#8217;s <a title=\"to be separate from; not to have any contact with\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">isolation<\/a>, technology is <a title=\"ten years\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">decades<\/a> behind western <a title=\"what is normal\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">standards<\/a>. Food that is produced goes into a <a title=\"everything is given to the poeple by the government\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">centralised distribution system<\/a>, where army soldiers and <a title=\"a high person in the army\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">officers<\/a> get the most.\u00a0 Farmers in the countryside are not allowed to sell food privately.<\/p>\r\n<p>The country&#8217;s leader, Kim Jong Un has ordered <a title=\"high-ranking people\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">officials<\/a> to <a title=\"here: to make more\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">raise<\/a> <a title=\"farming\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">agricultural<\/a> production in order to feed the country&#8217;s population.\u00a0Most of North Korea&#8217;s imported food comes from China, its most important <a title=\"the country you sell things and buy things from\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">trading partner<\/a>. Food shortages have happened before. A <a title=\"a situation in which a large number of people have little or no food for a long time and many people die\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">famine<\/a> in the 1990s killed\u00a0 up to 3 million people.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"wp-image-411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/640px-North_Korean_farmers_2009.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/640px-North_Korean_farmers_2009.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/640px-North_Korean_farmers_2009-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/640px-North_Korean_farmers_2009-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Farmers in North Korea<\/strong><br \/>Image : <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:North_Korean_farmers_(2009).jpg\">chenyingphoto<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>, <br \/>via Wikimedia Commons<br \/><br \/><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are concerns that North Korea is experiencing a food crisis among its population.\u00a0There have been deaths due to starvation and the lack of food. Experts say\u00a0 the food shortage may be a chronic mismanagement by North Korea&#8217;s government. Farming equipment cannot be repaired because there are not enough spare parts. There is a not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,50],"tags":[84,101,100],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-society","tag-asia","tag-food","tag-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}