Abstract North Korea has not been able to provide enough food to feed its population properly since 1995 after successive years of floods and droughts wiped out farmland, crops and food supplies. The economy was already in a state of decline following the loss of trade with the Soviet Union and other eastern European countries when those country's socialist systems of government collapsed. Access to cheap fuel, resources and other necessary equipment from those countries was …showed first 75 words of 1879 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1879 total…forces and found several tons of heroin on board with a street value of about $80 million. North Korea is a mountainous country and may not ever become completely self-sufficient but to achieve food security over the longer term, North Korea must change its policies in dealing with the rest of the world. It also needs to adjust its economic structure in light of its own comparative advantages and increase its interactions with the international markets.