North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un has inspected typhoon-hit farmlands, after tropical storm Khaun swept over the Korean Peninsula last week amid concerns over a food crisis in the Country.
Kim praised the Military’s efforts to salvage crops and said the troops were mobilised because they cannot lose a patch of farmland “to the natural rampage on the agricultural front directly related with the people’s living,” a report said.
The North has suffered serious food shortages in recent decades, including famine in the 1990s, often as a result of natural disasters.
International experts have warned that border closures during the COVID-19 pandemic worsened matters.
“He made sure that helicopters and light transport aircrafts of air force units … were mobilised as a step to improve the growth of crops in flooded fields, and personally organised and commanded the work for spraying pesticides,” the report said.
Khanun, which was downgraded from a typhoon to a tropical storm, made landfall on the Korean peninsula last week, prompting South Korean Authorities to evacuate more than 14,000 people and close schools in flood-hit areas.
REUTERS
