Posted 1/3/2024, 1:37:00 AM
Kim Jong Un Calls for Boosting Farm Mechanization to Improve North Korea's Agriculture
- Kim Jong Un called for "radical improvement" in North Korea's farm machinery sector during a visit to a farm machine exhibition
- Kim said developing a long-term plan to achieve agricultural mechanization is important for rural development
- Kim stated that radically improving farm industrialization is an "urgent requirement"
- The exhibition displayed hundreds of farm machines including tractors, rice transplanters, and unmanned helicopters
- North Korea has suffered food shortages for decades, worsened by border closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, though 2023 crop output increased somewhat