UN Rights Report Warns Of North Korea "Starvation Risk"
NDTV
North Korea's has been behind a rigid blockade since early last year to protect itself from pandemic, with the economy suffering.
North Korea's most vulnerable are "at risk of starvation" with the economy worsening due to a self-imposed coronavirus blockade, and UN sanctions imposed over the country's nuclear programmes should be eased, a UN human rights expert said.
The impoverished nation has been behind a rigid blockade since early last year to protect itself from the pandemic, with the economy suffering and trade with key partner China dwindling to a trickle.
In June, state-run KCTV admitted North Korea was facing a "food crisis", sounding the alarm in a country with a moribund agricultural sector that has long struggled to feed the population.
The same month, leader Kim Jong Un said the food situation was "getting tense".
