Roberta Cohen
With up to 31 percent of North Korea’s population still hungry, the commemoration of U.N. World Food Day on October 16 is an opportunity for governments, U.N. agencies and nongovernmental organizations to try to design ways to reduce hunger in North Korea ― “not just in the immediate present, but over the longer term,” Roberta Cohen, a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution writes today in her blog.

Cohen examines how many North Koreans are denied the right to food, describes the U.N. Commission of Inquiry that is investigating this and other violations, discusses how the U.S. government and international agencies address hunger in North Korea while also calling on North Korea to increase agricultural production.

The Brookings Institution — World Food Day: The Challenge of North Korea