Since the end of aid in 2009, North Korea's people have suffered greatly. In addition to the end of aid, harvests in the past year have cut production by as much as 50% due to drought in some areas leaving 10.5 million people hungry in the DPRK. With the lack of food, is the the shortage of healthcare in North Korea, as stated by an eyewitness on survivalpolitics.org, " With the state’s inability to supply basic medicines and equipments, the free health care system virtually collapsed in its ability to provide service to the sick...The shortage of medicine and widespread deaths by starvation incapacitated health care workers... People went to jangmadang (informal marketplace) to buy medicines" If the aid is resumed, millions of starving and sick Koreans will be able to survive.
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