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Smith presented research indicating that if the ability of a province to grow food were the only factor in malnutrition rates, North Korea’s capital Pyongyang would have the worst levels of malnutrition in the country. However, Pyongyang ranks highest in citizen nutrition, while the breadbasket province of South Hwanghae is among the worst...
Smith explained that the disparity between Pyongyang and South Hwanghae’s hunger problems—despite the latter region’s high agricultural capabilities—stems in part from the fact that “the population of South Hwanghae had little regular contact with foreigners with whom they could earn or obtain hard currency and thus few opportunities to buy and sell food...
...North Korea threatened it would shut the inter-Korean border within weeks. South Korea's Unification Ministry said North Korea, which has tolerated similar propaganda leaflets being floated in past years, made it clear that it would not accept messages saying the Dear Leader's days are numbered. Now, Pyongyang is blaming Seoul for failing to keep its activists in check...
...governments on radio broadcasts, loudspeakers across the demilitarized zone and on so-called 'paper bombs' - bundles of leaflets the two countries fired at each other. Then, in 2004, an agreement was reached to end the assaults. But since President Lee Myung Bak took office in February, relations with Pyongyang have again deteriorated. In July, when a South Korean housewife was shot during a trip to North Korea's Mount Geumgang, a symbol of reconciliation, South Korea suspended tours there and hasn't allowed its citizens to visit since...
...Seoul is upset over the possibility that Pyongyang might shut the border, crippling a highly symbolic four-year-old joint industrial complex between North Korean and South Korean companies. Since South Korean laws protect freedom of speech, there's little the government can do to legally stop activists like Choi. That doesn't mean they don't try. "We cannot stop this activity," said one official at the Unification Ministry's public information office. "But we are making efforts." The Ministry would not outline how it has been trying to ground the balloons, but Choi says government officials have visited...