North Korea fortified its borders with China and Russia during the pandemic. Kyodo News via Getty Images. And a woman living in the country’s capital, Pyongyang, revealed that a family of three ...

Concerns about North Korea’s chronic food shortages are growing, with multiple sources suggesting this week that deaths due to starvation are likely. Some experts say the country has hit its ...

Despite all its military threats and nuclear tests, North Korea is hiding a massive economic failure. With a GDP of just $25 ...

Its statist agricultural system has long failed to produce enough food for North Korea’s 26m people. A famine in the 1990s cost at least 200,000 lives—and by some estimates as many as 3m.

North Korea North Korea's COVID-19 border closure prompted suicide spike, widespread starvation: 'it's heartless' One woman claimed that people now harbor 'discontent' against their leaders ...

North Korea is increasing its repression of human rights and there are reports of starvation as the economic situation worsens, the U.N. rights chief said.

Families in North Korea are dying of starvation due to a shortage of supplies amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the supreme leader's vested interest in nuclear weapons.

North Korea sealed its borders in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic began to grip the globe. They cut off vital food supplies and made it impossible to leave, while also further curbing the domestic ...

Executions, forced labour and starvation persist in North Korea, UN official says - Increased repression post-pandemic in the isolated country, says human rights expert ...

The human rights chief for the United Nations said North Korea is increasing its repression of human rights, with people starving in portions of the country as it faces a worsening economic situati… ...

In 2022, North Korea's gross national income per capita was about 1,100 U.S. dollars, ... Government rations dried up, and as many as millions of people are estimated to have died from starvation.