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North Korean rice farmers rush to counter food shortages and malnutrition worsened by Covid-19 | South China Morning Post

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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 malnutr…

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