51.  Experts say chronic food shortages worsened dramatically after heavy flooding last year.

52.  Tokyo plans to invite India, Pakistan and other countries suffering chronic food shortages to take part in talks on forming the food bank.

53.  North Korea admitted two weeks ago that children were starting to die of starvation due to chronic food shortages throughout the nation.

54.  The defection of North Korean ruling party baron Hwang Jang-Yop has thrown the spotlight on the chronic food crisis in the last Stalinist bastion.