The North Korean famine (Korean: 조선기근), also known as the Arduous March (고난의 행군), was a period of mass starvation together with a general economic crisis from 1994 to 1998 in North Korea.

2017年11月16日 · “The Arduous March” wiped out hundreds of thousands—perhaps millions—of North Koreans.

2002年4月30日 · USAID Administrator Andrew S. Natsios' new book, The Great North Korean Famine, details not only how that defensiveness led to the crisis, but also the regime's cruel policies and the inadequate U.S. and international response.

2013年5月1日 · Then a few years later, starting in the mid-1990s, the era of great famine known as The Arduous March came to North Korea. Anywhere from hundreds of thousands to millions of people died of starvation due to the country’s economic isolation and the natural disasters of flooding and drought.

North Korea suffered from a horrific famine in the mid and late 1990s. The immediate cause of the North Korean famine was the widespread flooding in August 1995 that destroyed much of the nation’s rice crop. The summer monsoon rains that come each year were especially heavy.

Communist North Korea employs a food rationing system, a foundation of its planned economy that imposes great hardship on its people. The system caused widespread famine from the mid- to late 1990s, a period commonly known as the Arduous March.

2021年7月25日 · To address these challenges, Kim Jong Un has called on North Koreans to wage “another more difficult Arduous March,” a reference to the deadly famine that ravaged North Korea in the 1990s.

2021年4月9日 · The Arduous March is a term used by North Korea officials to refer to the country's struggle during the 1990s famine, when the fall of the Soviet Union...

This testimony, from a North Korean refugee who fled to South Korea, describes her experience of the so-called ‘Arduous March’.1 Throughout the 1990s, North Korea was gripped by economic crisis, natural disaster and famine.

North Korea suffered a devastating famine in the mid to late 1990s, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands to millions of people. The famine, known as the “Arduous March” in North Korea, was primarily caused by natural disasters, failed economic policies, and the country’s isolation from the international community.