April 6 (UPI) --North Korea said there is no child malnutrition in the country, and that the foreign press was using "absurd" and "fabricated data" to the make the claim. State-controlled news ...

Malnutrition Plagues Many in North Korea According to one report, the average North Korean boy is less than five feet tall and weighs less than 100 pounds. Children's growth in the country has ...

North Korea says it righted a capsized destroyer and moored it at a pier in the northeastern port of Chongjin as it continues ...

Those in Pyongyang live quite comfortably compared to the rest of North Korea, and malnutrition is far less common. Stunting affects 10 percent of children in Pyongyang, compared to 32 percent of ...

‘North Korea and Cuba are the world’s only Stalinist ... The DPRK eventually recovered, though malnutrition remained common in some areas and the country sometimes suffered from shortages.

More than 25% of North Korean children under the age of five suffered from chronic malnutrition in 2012, according to the National Nutrition Survey of North Korea, a report backed by UNICEF, the ...

SEOUL, July 18 (Reuters) - Rates of malnutrition and disease are increasing in North Korea as it faces a harvest that is half of what was expected, the International Federation of Red Cross and ...

GENEVA – GENEVA (AP) — North Korea needs to strengthen its health system by modernizing medical equipment, ensuring sufficient supply of medicines and paying greater attention to malnutrition ...

North Korea is home to about 26 million people who are taught to worship their leaders as gods. The country is culturally and economically isolated as many suffer from malnutrition and poverty.

In October 2021, Korea Future released a report ... Christians described the horrific conditions of North Korean prison camps include extreme malnutrition, forced feeding of contaminated food ...

North Korea has large incentives to use a tactical nuclear weapon ... Sanctions limit the North’s production and fuel reserves. The country’s chronic malnutrition likely affects its soldiers’ health ...