Skip to contentThe Asahi Shimbun>Asia & World>Korean Peninsula>THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFarmers plant rice using a rice seedling transplanter at Chongsan Cooperative Farm in Kangso District, Nampho, North Korea, on May 9, 2022. (AP Photo) SEOUL--North Korea has scheduled a major political conference to discuss the “urgent task” of improving its agricultural sector, a possible sign of worsening food insecurity as the country’s economic isolation deepens amid a defiant nuclear weapons push. “Put simply, North Korea teeters on the brink of famine,” Rengifo-Keller said