North Korea is about three months away from a crisis in humanitarian terms, as a poor harvest and declining aid from neighbouring countries threaten to create dramatic food shortages, the World Food Programme warned yesterday. Tony Banbury, the WFP's regional director for Asia, told the Financial Times that, while such a crisis could be averted over the coming months, "there are no real actions being taken and no obvious solutions in the immediate horizon".
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/warning-n-korea-food-crisis
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/raphael-minder
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/financial-times-london
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-prices
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-supply
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/north-korea
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/world-food-programme-wfp
