What are some of the major causes of the famine in North Korea? The famine in DPRK is the result of the cumulative effects of a fractured economic infrastructure and inadequate food production. Over ...

Amid Israel’s military assault, the world’s hunger monitor has struggled to access key data to determine whether conditions in Gaza constitute a famine. It’s a simple but brutal equation ...

The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) announced the results of its 2024 White Paper on Religious Freedom ...

Yet, thanks to satellite imagery and the internet, North Korea's secretive world is gradually being unveiled. Here is a ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a facility that produces nuclear material and called for bolstering the country ...

The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) announced the results of its 2024 White Paper on Religious Freedom ...

The economic opening came about mostly through sheer necessity: after the famine in the 1990s and increased sanctions, the state was just not capable anymore of providing everything for its citizens.

It was a very unusual level of assistance.” Although North Korea is no longer in the grips of famine that raged in the late 1990s and claimed countless lives, the U.N. World Food Program has ...

North Korea implemented birth control programs in the 1970-80s to slow a postwar population growth. The country’s fertility rate recorded a major decline following a famine in the mid-1990s that ...

Famine struck North Korea in the 1990's, a time when men were forced to work and women to stay at home. Director of the Masters of Not-for-Profit and Social Enterprise Program, Bronwen Dalton ...

The unprecedented loss of life in a foreign conflict means that the war in Ukraine could be the Kim regime’s most significant ...