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 ...

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But experts say there is no sign of mass deaths or famine. They say the upcoming ruling Workers’ Party meeting is likely intended to shore up support for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as he ...

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

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

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 ...

The book explains how the North Korean famine of the 1990s was an important catalyst which accelerated North Korean marketization and paved the way for a form of free capitalism which holds today’s ...

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 ...

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

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 ...