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Food shortages, pandemics and Kim’s slimming: what is known about the apparent crisis in North Korea

The burden of economic sanctions, pandemics, closed borders with the outside world, as well as natural disasters. These are the factors that made it For North Korea to recover from a devastating crisis, and perhaps the moment when the totalitarian state could have avoided the impending troubles has already been missed.

Not for nothing is the dictator of North Korea Kim Chenun has already warned compatriots that the food situation in the country is tense and that everyone must be prepared for the worst – case scenarios.

Covid-19 factor

When the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted world order a year and a half ago, North Korea responded by closing its borders with China and Russia, suspending international flights to the country, and imposing severe restrictions on movement within the country. Pyongyang went on to say proudly that no cases of the new coronavirus had been reported in the country, and that North Korea had not yet officially deviated from this statement.

Experts initially expressed concern about North Korea’s freedom from the pandemic and questioned the statements of the communist citadel. It seems that the Kim regime is gradually beginning to reveal the real situation in the country in the context of a pandemic – this week the head of state sharply criticized several officials of the ruling party for creating a “major crisis” in national security and human safety, the BBC reported.

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