North Korea: Kim Jong-un inaugurates conference focused on agriculture amid food shortage

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inaugurated an important political conference dedicated to agriculture. Government media gave this information on Monday. According to external assessments, North Korea is facing severe food shortages. South Korean experts estimate that North Korea is short of about 1 million tons, or 20 percent of its annual grain requirement, after the pandemic disrupted unofficial grain imports from China. Not only this, the government has banned the sale of food items in the markets.

Recent unconfirmed reports in South Korean media suggest that some North Koreans have died of starvation. However, most experts see no sign of mass deaths or famine in North Korea. During a high-level meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party that began on Sunday, senior party officials reviewed the government’s goals for the past year to carry out a “rural revolution in a new era”, according to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). reviewed the work of

The report added that the full meeting of the party’s Central Committee will identify actions of “urgent importance” on agricultural issues. KCNA did not provide information on whether Kim would address the meeting. The news also did not say how long the meeting would last. This is the first time the party has called a full session to discuss agriculture only. Monday’s news did not elaborate on the agenda of the meeting, but the party’s politburo said earlier this month that “a turning point is needed to dynamically promote a radical change in agricultural development”. .

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