Thursday, August 18, 2022
2:46 PM
Reuters/Geneva
A United Nations human rights expert voiced alarm on Tuesday at what he called "widespread food shortages and malnutrition" in North Korea, which have been exacerbated by a nearly five-month border closure with China and measures against Covid-19.
Tomas Ojea Quintana, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), urged the UN Security Council to "reconsider sanctions" on the isolated country so as to ensure the flow of food supplies.
"There have been reports of an increase of homeless people in large cities - including kotjebi (street children), and medicine prices have reportedly skyrocketed. An increasing number of families eat only twice a day, or eat only corn, and some are starving," he said in a statement.
Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman of the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), told a Geneva news briefing that the humanitarian situation in North Korea "remains bleak", with some 10 million, or 40% of the population, needing humanitarian aid.
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