North Korea faces economic ruin amid food and medicine shortages

North Korea observers believe worsening conditions are coinciding with a crackdown by the Pyongyang regime. Photograph: Jon Chol Jin/AP

North Korea observers believe worsening conditions are coinciding with a crackdown by the Pyongyang regime. Photograph: Jon Chol Jin/AP

source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/05/north-korea-economic-crisis-food-and-medicine-shortages-covid