North Korea exhorted its hunger-stricken population Saturday to redouble efforts to increase grain production, saying nothing is more urgent for the nation than addressing food shortages.The appeal from the North’s main newspaper, Rodong...

North Korea faces a looming food crisis due to floods last year that devastated the country’s agricultural heartland, exacerbating already perilous shortages, the U.N. food agency said Wednesday.The North’s annual food deficit is...

The U.N. food agency warns that North Korea faces a food crisis.The World Food Program’s director for Asia, Tony Banbury, says the situation in the North is “clearly bad and getting worse.”He says it is increasingly likely that...

Many of the world’s poorest people are unable to get enough food because of soaring prices partly caused by the use of food crops to produce biofuels, the head of the U.N. food agency said.”We’re seeing more people hungry and at...