Penian, to the famine crisis. Reduction rates for the population

North Korea has reduced food tolls to the lowest level for this period of the year, and may be forced to take other measures without international aid.

The United Nations has warned in a report that roughly 10.1 million North Koreans or 40 percent of the population suffer from poor food shortages, due to the worst harvest in a decade. UN experts have traveled to North Korea in April and November last year to make assessments of food safety visits to cooperatives, rural and urban areas, and distribution centers. They have come to the conclusion that the government's food distribution system, which is relying on a large part of the population, has been forced to reduce rations to 300 grams per person per day since January. Many families, according to them, consume very little protein and survive with a diet of rice and cabbage for the most part of the year. Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans lost their lives during a year of famine in 1990. The country has been facing food shortages for decades, and the West blames the Penians for this. The United Nations warns that the crisis this time may be critical and appeal for humanitarian intervention.