An estimated 11 million people in North Korea over 43 percent of the population are undernourished and "chronic food insecurity and malnutrition is widespread," according to a UN report issued Wednesday.
The report by Tapan Mishra, the head of the UN office in North Korea, said that "widespread undernutrition threatens an entire generation of children, with one in five children stunted due to chronic undernutrition."
Dujarric said North Korea's government asked last month for help from international humanitarian groups to combat food shortages. He said food production figures provided by North Korea showed "there is a food gap of about 1.4 million tons expected for 2019, and that's crops including rice, wheat, potato and soybeans."
He said an estimated 3 percent of children under age 5 approximately 140,000 "suffer from wasting or acute malnutrition" and "have a higher risk of mortality."
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