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June 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
North Korea harvests some 1.8 million tonnes of maize every year, about the
same amount as the rice harvest. Maize and rice are the two staples of the
impoverished state, he said.
The drought has hit 196,882 hectares (486,298 acres) or 17 per cent of North
Korea’s total farmland, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
said in a report posted on its website on Monday.
Any drop in production was likely to add to the food shortfall and worsen food
insecurity in the country, it said.
“Three million vulnerable people, mainly living in the five most
food-insecure provinces of Yanggang, Jagang, North Hamkyong, South Hamkyong
and Kangwon, are in urgent need of international food assistance,” it
said.
The assessments are at odds with that of the conservative South Korean
government.
The North’s food situation “is not so serious as to fall into a level of
crisis”, foreign ministry spokesman Cho Byung-jae said on Tuesday,
adding the South has no plans to resume government food aid at present.
The current Seoul government stopped annual major food and fertiliser
shipments in 2008. It has permitted humanitarian aid by civic groups, mostly
modest in scale.
Source: AFP
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