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Ifang Bremer
Ifang Bremer is a Seoul Correspondent at NK News. He has worked on investigations for The Guardian and The Observer and previously wrote features on Korea for Dutch newspaper NRC.
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News Almost half of North Korea’s population undernourished due to food shortages: UNReport estimates 12 million people are not getting enough to eat, an increase of more than 1 million from last year Almost 12 million North Koreans are undernourished, a new U.N. report shows, a massive surge of more than 1 million people compared to data from the same assessment last year. 45.5% of the North Korean population was undernourished between 2020 and 2022, according to the annual “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report” published Wednesday, up from 41% from between 2019 and 2021. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |