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 […]