FAO/WFP CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY ASSESSMENT MISSION TO THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA - 11 September 1997
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Against the backdrop of two successive years of floods in 1995 and 1996, this summer brought not only devastating drought throughout the country, but also a destructive typhoon, which extensively damaged crops in coastal areas in the west. These catastrophic events will undoubtedly have serious and long reaching repercussions on the country’s already grave food supply situation. Guarded optimism, expressed earlier, for some recovery in food production this year, is now replaced by very serious a larm at food security prospects for the coming months and year ahead. Certainly, in the absence of remedial interventions the potential consequences of this year’s calamities are likely to far exceed the devastation of the last two years as the country’s agriculture, food supply and the health of its population have already been severely affected. To assess the potential ramifications of this year’s drought and typhoon on crop production and food supply, a joint FAO/WFP mission visited Korea DPR from 16 to 26 August. It based its evaluation on discussions with Government and UN agencies and extensive damage assessment visits to the main agricultural areas in the south-west and north-east of the country. These include some 15 counties in the provinces of north and south Hwanghae, south Pyongan, south Hamyong and Kangwon.