N. Korea announces land reforms resembling China’s in bid to ease urban food shortages

N. Korea announces land reforms resembling China’s in bid to ease urban food shortages

Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea has begun parceling out state-owned farmland to city laborers to address chronic food shortages in urban areas, sources here said. “The North has started to lend cooperative farmland to city workers since mid-May in an attempt to ease acute food shortage problems for urban citizens,” said […]