date:Aug 23, 2018
up to 20%.
A new famine in late 2018/early 2019 is very likely unless UN sanctions are lifted, or China, Russia or others provide massive food aid to the beleaguered regime.
Agriculture accounts for 22% of North Koreas GDP, employs between 37-40% of the population. With a mere 22% of the total land area of North Korea arable, an imminent crop failure will have serious consequences for regime stability if no headway is made on US sanctions talks.
In 2017 most of North Koreas grain import came