http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/emergency/KP_FAM.htm

http://www.atimes.com/koreas/CE23Dg02.html
Let's begin with a rare and welcome event: perhaps the first ever detailed data from the horse's mouth. On May 15, Choe Su-hon, one of Pyongyang's nine deputy foreign ministers, quantified the grim truth at a Unicef conference in Beijing. Almost a quarter of a million people - 220,000 to be exact - died of famine between 1995 and 1998. As a result, and also due to medical shortages, average life expectancy fell from 73.2 in 1993 to 66.8 in 1999. Showing who exactly bore the brunt, infant mortality (under 5s) almost doubled from 27 to 48 per 1,000 people. Choe also gave data on a related disaster: his country's wider health care crisis. In 1994, 86 percent of people had access to save drinking water; by 1996, only 53 percent did. And the rate of vaccination against polio and measles fell from 90 percent in 1990 to just 50 percent by 1997.

http://www.hrnk.org/hungerHumanRights.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/416193.stm

http://www.usip.org/peacewatch/2002/6/famine.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea