{"id":52826,"date":"2023-02-22T11:51:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T02:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/22\/poisoned-candy-north-korean-state-media-shuns-food-aid-despite-hunger-crisis"},"modified":"2023-02-22T11:51:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T02:51:25","slug":"poisoned-candy-north-korean-state-media-shuns-food-aid-despite-hunger-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52826","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Poisoned candy\u2019: North Korean state media shuns food aid despite hunger crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea warns that death from starvation appears to be rising in many of the North\u2019s provinces<\/p>\n<p>The major North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun has said that relying on external aid to cope with food shortages would be the same as taking \u201cpoisoned candy\u201d, amid a national crisis and a reported increase in deaths from starvation.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has suffered food shortages in recent years, brought on by natural disasters, international sanctions aimed at curbing its nuclear and missile programmes, and a sharp cut in trade with China due to border closures and Covid-19 lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/22\/poisoned-candy-north-korean-state-media-shuns-food-aid-despite-hunger-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea warns that death from starvation appears to be rising in many of the North\u2019s provincesThe major North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun has said that relying on external aid to cope with food shortages would be the same as taking \u201cpoison&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[1527,1149,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famine","category-food-security","category-north-korea","category-south-korea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52826","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52827,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52826\/revisions\/52827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}