Bend / Central Oregon News, Sports, Business, Weather, Entertainment, Classifieds and Local & State Headlines | The Bulletin

Use Advanced Search to filter by date and category. *keyword is required in search field.
start date (MM-DD-YYYY):
 -  - 
end date (MM-DD-YYYY):
 -  - 
category:
Archive Home > 2008 > July > 31 > U.N.: Worst food crisis since 1990s closing in on N. Korea

U.N.: Worst food crisis since 1990s closing in on N. Korea

By Los Angeles Times / The Bulletin
July 31, 2008

North Korea is heading toward its worst food crisis since the 1990s because of flooding, crop failures and worldwide inflation for staples such as rice and corn, the U.N. World Food Program said Wednesday.

The agency shied away from predicting another famine like the one that killed up to 2....

Read complete article

Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.