North Korea party meeting set to discuss 'urgent' food issue

Farmers manage rice seedlings at the Namsa Co-op Farm of Rangnang District in Pyongyang.North Korea has scheduled a major political conference Feb. 2023, to discuss the “urgent task” of improving its agricultural sector, a possible sign that the country’s food insecurity is getting worse as its economic isolation deepens amid a defiant nuclear weapons push. - AP

SEOUL, Feb 6 (AP): North Korea has scheduled a major political conference to discuss the "urgent task” of improving its agricultural sector, a possible sign of worsening food insecurity as the country's economic isolation deepens amid a defiant nuclear weapons push.

North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Monday that members of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Politburo met on Saturday and agreed to hold a larger plenary meeting of the party’s Central Committee in late February to review strategies on agriculture and set new goals. It said the Politburo members acknowledged a "a turning point is needed to dynamically promote the radical change in agricultural development.”