{"id":53000,"date":"2023-02-28T14:13:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T05:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/28\/north-korea-food-shortages-kim-jong-un-agriculture-grain-targets-sanctions"},"modified":"2023-02-28T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T05:13:46","slug":"north-koreas-kim-jong-un-sounds-alarm-on-agriculture-amid-reports-of-food-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53000","title":{"rendered":"North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-un sounds alarm on agriculture amid reports of food shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader says agriculture needs \u2018fundamental transformation\u2019 and makes hitting grain targets a priority as country isolated by sanctions struggles <\/p>\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has urged government officials to engineer a \u201cfundamental transformation\u201d in agricultural production, state media reported, amid fears that the country\u2019s food shortage is worsening.<\/p>\n<p>Kim said hitting grain production targets this year was a priority and emphasised the importance of stable agriculture production during the second day of a key meeting of the Workers\u2019 party, the state news agency KCNA said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/28\/north-korea-food-shortages-kim-jong-un-agriculture-grain-targets-sanctions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader says agriculture needs \u2018fundamental transformation\u2019 and makes hitting grain targets a priority as country isolated by sanctions struggles North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has urged government officials to engineer a \u201cfundamental transformation\u201d i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,421,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","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\/53000","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53001,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53000\/revisions\/53001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}