FAO: 1 in 4 Rural North Korean Children Underweight

More than 26 percent of children in North Korea’s countryside are underweight, a U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization report says. The agency, in its recently released "State of Food and Agriculture 2015" report, also estimated that there are twice as many undernourished children in the communist country’s rural areas as in its cities. Andre Croppenstedt, an FAO researcher who wrote the report, told VOA that "it’s normal to have a much higher percentage of children...

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