North Korea warned that she was suffering from a food crisis for lack of food and asked for help from the UN

The North Korean government has asked for help from the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations in the absence of food in the country, reported the UN Thursday.

"The government has requested the help of international humanitarian organizations present in the country to respond to the impact of the food security situation"The spokesman Stephane Dujarric explained.

The UN is in contact with the North Korean authorities to badyze the impact that lack of food can have on the most vulnerable population and act early to respond to humanitarian needs.

Dujarric said that According to figures reported by Pyongyang, the country is expected to lack about 1.4 million tons of food by 2019. like wheat, rice, potatoes and soy.

The spokesman said that UN worries "deterioration of food security" in North Korea and the badysis with the government.

The Asian country was the scene in the 90s a severe famine that, according to various estimates, has cost the lives of 250,000 to more than 3 million of people.

North Korea is subject to significant international sanctions resulting from its nuclear program and missiles. Although there are humanitarian exemptions, many experts recognize that sanctions against the regime also affect the population.

Countries like Russia have recently called for the lifting of some of these sanctions to encourage Pyongyang to advance in the denuclearization talks with the United States, which wants to see concrete results before taking this step.

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will hold its second summit in Hanoi (Vietnam) next week with the aim of hearing on a "shared definition" of what denuclearization impliesafter months of stagnation in the negotiations.

Trump and Kim held a historic first meeting in Singapore last June to take the first steps in this process.

Pyonyang and Washington remain technically opposed since the Korean War (1950-1953), which ended with a ceasefire signed by North Korea, the so-called army of Chinese and American volunteers. (who signed it on behalf of the United Nations Command) and this has never been replaced by a peace treaty.