North Korea faces a looming food and humanitarian crisis after a poor harvest that has caused food prices to skyrocket and supplies to dwindle, the United Nations World Food Programme said on Wednesday. Agricultural experts in Seoul have said the shortfall, the result of flood damage last year, high commodity prices and political wrangling with major food donor South Korea, may be one of the worst since famine hit North Korea in the 1990s.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/un-agency-warns-food-crisis-north-korea
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/new-age-bangladesh
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-prices
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/floods
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nuclear-power
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/famine
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bangladesh
