date:Aug 23, 2018
North Korea faces a food famine this coming winter. The expected fall in crop production will be the worst since Kim Jong-un came to power and a sustained famine could test the stability of his regime. Squeezed by new import restrictions induced by international enforcement of a tough UN sanctions regime, against the backdrop of a stalled nuclear negotiation with the US, a crippling heatwave, a shortage of fertilizers and the lack of farm equipment, North Korean fall crop harvests could fall by