`One meal a day' in North Korea

Tokyo - Food supplies are so short in the capital of famine-hit North Korea people are reduced to eating only one meal a day, …

Tokyo - Food supplies are so short in the capital of famine-hit North Korea people are reduced to eating only one meal a day, according to a Japanese woman visiting her homeland from Pyongyang.

Ms Tamao Murakami (69), was one of a group of 12 Japanese women married to North Koreans who arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday for the first time in nearly 40 years.

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