North Korean rice farmers rush to counter food shortages and malnutrition worsened by Covid-19

As the traditional rice transplanting season gets into full swing in North Korea, farmers at the Sunan Cooperative Farm outside the capital Pyongyang are scrambling to transplant seedlings to their fields. A United Nations human rights expert voiced alarm on June 9, 2020, about “widespread food shortages and malnutrition” in the country which normally struggles to provide enough food staples for its 25.55 million people. The UN says an underlying shortage of agricultural land has been made…