Day: November 29, 2021

Food Aid to North Korea Leads to Starvation

A North Korean court on November 10 sentenced two cadres to life imprisonment for “anti-socialist and non-socialist acts”—in this case, “violating the closed border.” The officials, trying to alleviate a severe food shortage in North Hamgyong province, were buying rice from China. The convictions come as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea heads into another