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DPRK

GIEWS Country Brief: Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 15-March-2011

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FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT

- Severe winter is expected to affect winter wheat and spring potato harvests in 2011 and increase the food deficit further

- Rise in international prices of cereals, especially maize, is said to have reduced the country's ability to import needed quantities

- Chronic food insecurity continues throughout the country