Mass starvation is no longer the crisis it once was in North Korea, but the nation still endures high levels of food insecurity.More than 40 percent of the population is undernourished — up to ...

FAKE MEAT: Like dububab, injogigibab is a North Korean street food. It’s made of the residue left over from making soybean oil, dried and sold in reels, and stuffed with rice.

North Korea has suffered deadly famines in the past and now its leader, Kim Jong-un, has warned of severe food shortages ahead. It's very difficult to get reliable information out of the highly ...

Tree bark. Mina Yoon, a North Korea defector who left in 2010, said she and her family would eat pine bark cake—a dessert made from taking an inner layer of bark and creating a powder from it.

This footage recorded in the secretive world of North Korea by a man and his wife offers a rare glimpse into the Hermit Kingdom's culture - specifically its street food. Jaka Parker set out to buy ...

SEOUL, South Korea — About 40 percent of North Korea’s population is in urgent need of food aid after the country suffered its worst harvest in a decade, the United Nations said on Friday ...

Although we're lucky to live in a restaurant-dense city with more than 38,000 eateries just a Metrocard swipe away, there are cuisines that have yet to achieve benchmark status in the five boroughs.