{"id":31750,"date":"2021-05-05T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/05\/north-korea-economic-crisis-food-and-medicine-shortages-covid"},"modified":"2021-05-05T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T00:00:03","slug":"north-korea-faces-economic-ruin-amid-food-and-medicine-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31750","title":{"rendered":"North Korea faces economic ruin amid food and medicine shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s economy battered by more than a year of border restrictions imposed after the Covid outbreak <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>North Korea is facing one of the worst economic crises in its 73-year history, amid shortages of food and medicines and warnings of rising unemployment and homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s economy has been battered by more than a year of border restrictions imposed after the coronavirus outbreak, flooding caused by natural disasters, and international sanctions imposed in response to the regime\u2019s nuclear and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jul\/04\/north-korea-launches-ballistic-missile-japans-defence-ministry-says\">ballistic missile<\/a> programmes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/05\/north-korea-economic-crisis-food-and-medicine-shortages-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s economy battered by more than a year of border restrictions imposed after the Covid outbreak Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNorth Korea is facing one of the worst economic crises in its 73-year history, amid short&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31751,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31750\/revisions\/31751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}