SEOUL, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- One in three North Korean children under age 5 suffer from stunted growth due to malnutrition, and one-third of North Korean women are afflicted by anemia, according to the World Food Program.
Damian Kean, WFP's regional communications officer for Asia, told Voice of America that vulnerable groups in North Korea could have been hard hit by a severe drought in 2015, which has reduced the yields of staple crops, such as rice and corn. The Food and Agriculture Organization had recently forecast North Korea's crop yields were down by 10-15 percent from average levels.