There have been other persistent but unconfirmed reports of cannibalism in famine-stricken North Korea, which has seen severe food shortages from economic mismanagement and natural disasters.

During the famine in the mid-1990s, grain was hard to come by, he said. North Korea monitoring groups have reported increases in the prices of rice and corn — the two most important staples ...

She recalled the pain of experiencing North Korea’s deadliest famine in the 1990s. She decided when she was 23 that she wanted to leave the country, hoping that her future children would not ...