The move would come as North Korea faced a drought brought on by what official media described last month as the country's lowest rainfall in a century.
China's Xi Jinping Will Reportedly Give Kim Jong Un 100,000 Tons of Food to Feed Hungry North KoreansChinese President Xi Jinping may be offering up to 100,000 tons of food in humanitarian aid to North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un ahead of a historic visit later this week.
The move would also come as North Korea faced a drought brought on by what ruling Korean Workers' Party Central Committee official newspaperdescribed last month as the country's lowest rainfall in a century. On Friday, the official Korean Central News Agency reported that"Drought has been persisting in some areas" of the country.
People take part in an annual rice planting event in Nampho City, Chongsan-ri, North Korea, May 12. North Korea is experiencing what official media has called its lowest rainfall in a century, leading to a devastating drought.A joint assessment last month by the United Nations' World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization found that"around 10 million North Koreans are suffering food shortages after [the] worst harvest in a decade." A U.N.
These international offers came at a time when Kim was engaged in one of his country's most intense diplomatic campaigns in years. After his first meeting with Xi early last year in Beijing, the North Korean ruler went on to meet the Chinese president three more times and had an additional three meetings with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Kim also became the first in his position to meet a sitting U.S. leader when he sat down with President Donald Trump last year in Singapore.
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