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1. Food shortage [Korea Herald]
Bad weather, border closures and economic sanctions during the pandemic appear to have hit NK's food production -- but for Kim Jong-un, it's a chance to tighten his grip, experts say.
In North Korea, acute and chronic food shortages have been exacerbated following the triple whammy of economic sanctions, self-imposed border closures and years of extreme weather events.
North Korean people know their salvation lies in places such as illegal private farming, since the state’s food distribution system has remained dysfunctional for decades.
But the Kim Jong-un regime continues to tighten central control over the allocation and distribution of grain products, which will lead to further food shortages and disruption in private grain markets, which North Korean people have relied on for food since the famine of the 1990s.
[NK Hunger] A closer look at North Korea’s post-COVID food shortages
2. Archives of the April 19 Revolution in 1960 and archives of the Donghak Peasant Revolution in 1894 [Korea Herald]
- The archives of the April 19 Revolution include a total of 1,302 documented materials that cover the social background and development of the revolution leading to the downfall of former President Syngman Rhee, who took held office from 1948 to 1960.
- The archives of the Donghak Peasant Revolution refer to a collection of some 185 documents that depict the uprising against corruption in the ruling class and foreign powers’ encroachment on Korea, calling for a more just and equal society.
Two historical archives of the nation's grassroots revolutions, which are seen as having set milestones for democratization of Korea -- archives of the April 19 Revolution in 1960 and archives of the Donghak Peasant Revolution in 1894 -- have been nominated as heritage documents to be inscribed on the UNESCO's Memory of the World.
[Archives of grassroots revolutions nominated for UNESCO Memory of the World inscription]
‘4·19혁명 기록물’과 ‘동학농민혁명 기록물’의 유네스코 세계기록유산 등재 확실시
3. Song Young-gil [Korea Herald]
- Former party leader of Democratic Party from 2 May 2021 until 10 March 2022.
- Song stepped down in March 2022 immediately after Lee's narrow loss in the presidential election against the incumbent President Yoon Suk Yeol. Lee succeeded Song's post in August.
Main opposition party leader Lee Jae-myung on Monday delivered a public apology for concerns over intensifying allegations that illicit, unreported funds were distributed in envelopes containing cash at the party's convention in 2021. The Democratic Party of Korea chairman said he has asked his predecessor Song Young-gil, a suspected beneficiary of the alleged illicit campaign financing scheme, to return to South Korea.
[Opposition leader apologizes for 'cash envelope' scandal]