A North Korean woman works on an apple farm near Pyongyang in April 2012. Some 16 million people -- two-thirds of the population -- depend on the state rationing system and suffer varying degrees of ... more 

A North Korean woman works on an apple farm near Pyongyang in April 2012. Some 16 million people -- two-thirds of the population -- depend on the state rationing system and suffer varying degrees of chronic food insecurity, six UN agencies operating inside the North say in a report released Tuesday less