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Tackling Hunger in North Korea

12/05/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Tackling Hunger in North Korea

A view of North Korea from the head of World Food Programme

A view of North Korea’s problems with its inability to feed its population from David Beasley, the head of World Food Programme, who has just visited the country and witnessed its farming methods first hand. 

Also in the programme: The runners and riders of the Eurovision Song Contest.

(Image: A woman sprays fertilizer on vegetables at a greenhouse during a media tour of Jangchon cooperative farm on the outskirts of Pyongyang, North Korea on 4th May 2016. Credit: Linda Davidson/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

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