SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited typhoon-hit farms and oversaw military helicopters spraying pesticides in a bid to salvage key crops, state media said on Friday (Aug 18). Tropical Storm Khanun made landfa
KCNA images showed Kim, in a white jacket and trousers, squatting at the edge of the paddy field while military helicopters sprayed crops.
The North Korean leader said the rapid response of the military to the typhoon damage had been"performing a miracle of recovering flooded farmland in a brief span of time"."Kim Jong Un's order to mobilise air force planes is merely a show," An Chan-il, a defector-turned-researcher who runs the World Institute for North Korea Studies, told AFP.
"The appropriate time for pesticide spraying on crops has already passed," he said, adding that reliance on the military for typhoon damage recovery showed other available resources may be depleted.On Thursday, Seoul's spy agency said people were starving in the North, with the country's economy trapped in a"vicious cycle" with negative growth for three years from 2020 to 2022.
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