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I looking for information on the North Korean Famine which is still ongoing. I need to include a discussion of the social, political and environmental conditions that contributed to the famine in whole or in part, a description of the extent of the famine, efforts that were made to alleviate human suffering and the extent to which they were successful.

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This famine has both political and environmental causes. Following the fall of the Soviet Union and flooding in the mid-1990s, famine struck North Korea. Previously, the North Korean economic system depended on "friendship prices" trade with the Soviet Union. North Korea should have recovered from the flooding ...

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