North Korea is suffering from a serious food crisis that has forced many people to eat wild animals to stay alive. Years of famine, poor harvests, and government failure have left the country without enough food. According to a study based on interviews with North Korean defectors, people are now hunting almost any animal they can find, including tigers, bears, foxes, badgers, and even deer. Hunger first drove people to the forests during the 1990s famine, but the hunting and trading of wild animals have continued ever since. Many endangered species, such as the Siberian tiger and Amur leopard, are now at risk because of this desperate search for food. Some government farms even raise animals like bears and otters to sell their body parts for money. While ordinary people struggle to find something to eat, leader Kim Jong-un continues to live in comfort, showing the huge gap between the country’s rulers and its starving citizens.

Pray for the end of oppression and isolation from the outside world in North Korea. Pray for the North Korean leader to ease the border restrictions and allow humanitarian aid supplies into the country to solve the hunger crisis (The Holy Bible, Proverbs 11:14).

Pray for divine provision of food and other basic needs to all the North Korean families. Pray for the LORD’s intervention in North Korea against oppression and starvation. (The Holy Bible, Psalm 12:5).

News Source: Daily Express US

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