Human rights activists assert that North Korea is currently facing a severe food shortage, leading to widespread starvation and fatalities across the country, including its capital, Pyongyang.
Starting in June 2023, the distribution of food rations to military officers, security officers (ordinary police), and security guards (political police) was halted. This decision followed the discontinuation of food rations to their families in November 2022. Even soldiers are suffering from hunger due to the scarcity of food. Surprisingly, the famine situation has received little coverage from the news media in Japan and South Korea.
A group of North Korean human rights activists who defected to South Korea maintain continuous communication with local sources. Among them is Kim Seong Min, the Director of Free North Korea Radio, which provides shortwave radio broadcasting services for North Koreans. In early July, Kim received information from multiple sources about the dire famine in...
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