North Korea faces the worst food shortage since 2011, when leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un took power.
| He should have pushed himself away from the table... |
Experts say the impoverished state will fall 1 million tons short of next year's expected minimum food consumption of roughly 5.4 million tons.
A severe drought that plagued the North this summer has led to a 10-percent drop in food production.
| Not to mention the totalitarian repression, concentration camps, militarized police state, and lack of an economy. No, the news reports never mention those things. It's always a drought. |
A decrease in agricultural imports from China due to soured relations is believed to have exacerbated the situation. |