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Quoting government estimates, FAO announced a shortfall of 1.66 million metric tons in the production of cereals for the year 2007. This is attributed to the impact of the serious floods that hit most parts of DPRK in August last year. DPRK experienced an unusually dry winter with very little snow fall and precipitation. The difficult situation with minimal soil moisture was compounded by the almost total absence of fertilizers. Therefore the prospects of the next spring crop look bleak. In addition as a result of tensions with the newly elected South Korean Government, unlike previous years, DPRK has not received humanitarian fertilizer and food assistance from the Republic of Korea. These signs portend a very difficult year ahead. Prices of staple foods in the capital Pyongyang have doubled over the past year and are now at their highest recorded levels since 2004. We have already seen some early signs of increasing numbers of malnourished children seeking treatment in hospitals. The international community in DPRK is seriously concerned about these developments. WFP estimates that more than 6.5 million people in DPRK suffer from food insecurity - a figure that can be expected to rise if action is not taken to address the growing food shortages. A sharp deterioration in the food situation will aggravate the precarious nutritional status of millions of children and women and could reverse the gains made over the past decade. Based on the last nutrition survey conducted in 2004, chronic malnutrition of children under 5 stood at 37% and malnutrition of mothers at over 30%. UNICEF is working with the UN Country Team and other agencies in DPRK to prepare ourselves to do whatever is possible in these circumstances to protect the well-being of the vulnerable populations. UNICEF's mainstream programmes in the sectors of health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene and education are all critical in these efforts.  
DPR Korea Humanitarian Action Update 29 Apr 2008 [pdf]

On 15th of February, 2007 the government of DPRK requested UNICEF and WHO for help in responding to a large measles outbreak. Over 3000 cases were reported by then from all the provinces in the country.  The outbreak had resulted in four deaths including two children and had occurred over a wide age group, with children and youth between 11 and 19 years of age being the most affected (40% of all reported cases). The nation wide measles vaccination campaign experience is a graphic illustration of the capacity of the UNICEF team in DPRK to respond swiftly and effectively to issues affecting the lives and well being of children when resources are available. The immediate access to funds under the Rapid Response window of the Central Emergency Reserve Fund (CERF) was key to make this possible.
The concern about food security in DPRK continues. The World Food Programme has recently drawn attention to the estimate that there could be a shortfall of a million tons of food grains this year. A shortfall of this magnitude, along with the drastically reduced inflow of food from other countries will seriously jeopardize the already fragile situation of malnourishment among children and pregnant women.
Only 47 per cent of UNICEF's 2007 Appeal has been funded to date, jeopardizing the provision of critical basic social services for children and women during the second half of the year. UNICEF urgently requires US$ 3.6 million to be able to respond to the priority needs of children and women.
DPR Korea Donor Update 12 April 2007 [pdf]

The severe flooding experienced in four provinces in mid-July 2006 led to an estimated food deficit of about 1 million tons in the 2006/7 period, out of an estimated food need of 5 million tons. The situation is exacerbated by the decision to stop receiving emergency assistance in 2005, as well as the steep falls in multilateral and bi-laterial food aid and voting of UN sanctions following its missile and nuclear tests in July and October 2006. In this context, mobilising resources to support basic social sercives in health, nutrition, water/sanitation and education for Korean children is a major challenge. UNICEF strongly advocates that the rights to survival and development of Korean children who are victims of the on-going political turmoil and represent the future hope of the country should not be negatively impacted as a result of UN santions.
DPR Korea Donor Update 8 December 2006 [pdf]