UN warns over North Korea food insecurity

Chronic food shortages and malnutrition are widespread in North Korea, a UN-led report said, as a senior official appealed to donors not to let political considerations get in the way of humanitarian assistance. Around 41 percent -- 10.5 million people -- were undernourished, it said, citing figures from the International Food Policy Research Insitute's 2016 Global Hunger Index, which ranked it 98th out of 118 countries.