Kim admits food situation tense


SEOUL: Kim Jong-un (pic) has admitted that North Korea’s food situation is “tense”, state media reported, sounding the alarm in a country that suffered a devastating famine in the 1990s in which hundreds of thousands died.

The impoverished country, which is under multiple sets of international sanctions over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes, has long struggled to feed itself, suffering chronic food shortages.

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