In mid-June, the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, publicly acknowledged that “the people’s food situation is getting tense” as the national agricultural sector had failed to meet its grain targets due to typhoons which caused flooding last year, destroying more than 40.000 hectares of cropland and approximately 16.860 (BBC, 2021; Bicker, 2021). Nevertheless, flooding worsened the already dire …
North Korea: A Totalitarian Regime in Distress
