Contact Admin. Isolated North Korea has appealed for food aid following years of mismanagement. In South Hwanghae province, which traditionally produces about a third of the country's total cereal supply, officials say a savage winter wiped out 65 percent of the barley, wheat and potato crops.
Then summer floods and storms destroyed 80 percent of the maize harvest, according to the province's governing People's Committee. A North Korean boy works in a field of a collective farm in the area damaged by summer floods and typhoons in South Hwanghae province.
Only 30 percent of a U. The United States and South Korea, the North's two biggest donors before sanctions, have said they won't resume aid until they are satisfied the military-led communist regime will not divert the aid for its own uses and progress is made on disarmament talks.
Han Yong Hui, the leader of the Soa-Ri collective farm walks through a village in the area hit by floods and typhoons. Orphans suffering from waterborne diseases wait to be examined for possible signs of malnutrition. A foreign health volunteer measures a child's arm for possible signs of malnutrition in a village. North Korean military are seen below a tower practicing the national Juche self-reliance Ideology.
I crossed into North Korea for the first time in my life to witness what should have been the distant past. I considered myself lucky; only my privileged status as an outsider prevented me from returning home the moment our plane landed and the first signs of grey reality were seen through the window of our plane.
