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Various street scenes in Kaesong2. Vendor with no food3. Street scene4. Track bare trees in southern North...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003ePyongyang, Nampo, Kaesong, various in North Korea, and Ha-man, South Korea, May 1996 (except where stated)\u003cbr/\u003eKaesong, North Korea:\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various street scenes in Kaesong\u003cbr/\u003e2. Vendor with no food\u003cbr/\u003e3. Street scene\u003cbr/\u003e4. Track bare trees in southern North Korea \u003cbr/\u003eNear Kaesong, N Korea:\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various barren field shots\u003cbr/\u003eHa-man, South Korea, 12 May:\u003cbr/\u003e6. Plough in field\u003cbr/\u003e7. Workers planting seedlings\u003cbr/\u003e8. Tilling soil\u003cbr/\u003e9. Seedlings\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: Kim Yoon-bok\u003cbr/\u003eNorth Korea:\u003cbr/\u003e11. Tracking shots of fields in central North Korea\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various shots: man hoeing field near Pyongyang\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various tracking shots of rice paddies near Nampo\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: Bradley Martin\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various street scenes: Pyongyang\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE: Ian Davies\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various interiors: store with many people buying nothing in Kaesong\u003cbr/\u003e18. Silhouetted man walking in Pyongyang with sunset in background\u003cbr/\u003eEng/Korean/Nat\u003cbr/\u003eThere's new concern that communist North Korea is facing a famine.\u003cbr/\u003eOne report says people in rural areas are fleeing the country because they can't get enough to eat - and that even in the capital Pyongyang, some residents survive on roots and grass.\u003cbr/\u003eBut UN officials are playing down the scale of the crisis.\u003cbr/\u003eAPTV has this exclusive report from North Korea.\u003cbr/\u003eLike most North Korean cities, there are few cars on the streets of Kaesong even during the busiest hours of the day.\u003cbr/\u003eThe lack of fuel can be seen here, where a man pulls gas containers along on a simple handcart.\u003cbr/\u003eBut North Korea is not just short of fuel - it also has a problem with food.\u003cbr/\u003eThe sparse food situation in Kaesong is mirrored in other cities as well.\u003cbr/\u003eThe few vendors found along the way sell the little they are able to find almost as soon as they open for business.\u003cbr/\u003eInformation on the food situation, although closely guarded by the government, trickles out through aid agencies and visiting business people who see shortages firsthand.\u003cbr/\u003eA drive through the countryside shows bare trees, due to a longer-than-expected winter, and rocks left by the floods.\u003cbr/\u003eFields appear dry and in many cases untilled, with few people attending to crops which should have started to sprout.\u003cbr/\u003eLivestock is also a rare sight, with the few that are visible looking underfed.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's all a huge contrast with what's happening just across the border - in South Korea.\u003cbr/\u003eSouth Korean farmers have seen their crops mature - and they don't understand why farmers in the North haven't been able to achieve the same results:\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Korean)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Farming techniques which have been passed on by our ancestors are the same for both North and South Korea.  The only difference is that because of the slight climate change, the North would be a little behind.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Kim Yoon-bok, Ha-Nam City Agricultural Cooperative Association.\u003cbr/\u003eNorth Korea desperately needs a successful rice harvest this year. So far it's looking good - the rice paddies visible along major routes appear well-irrigated and often green.\u003cbr/\u003eBut no matter what happens, it won't be enough. North Korean officials have already made clear they want help from the United States and other foreign nations.\u003cbr/\u003eSome Korea-watchers paint a grim picture of the struggle to stave off starvation in the North:\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"We know that the people in the rural areas are extremely hungry.  A great number of people, people are escaping from the country because of hunger.  There are also reports that people even in Pyongyang have been seen scrounging around trying to find roots and grass to eat in the park.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Bradley Martin, Asia Times\u003cbr/\u003eBut United Nations officials suggest this view is overstated. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't see the situation in the D-P-R-K being a very bad or that there might actually be a major food crisis.  I would not call what the D-P-R-K is going through at the moment a period of food crisis. They have food problems, but certainly not of the scale that you have in Sub-Sahara Africa, for instance.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Ian Davies, UNDP, Tumen River Development Programme\u003cbr/\u003eHe also said that in terms of consumer goods, North Koreans are better off than their Chinese counterparts, asserting that just about every farmhouse in the country has a television.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the shoppers in this store were not observed making any purchases, despite flocking in when foreigners appeared.\u003cbr/\u003eMembers of the U-N-D-P team say that the economy here is due to bounce back after four straight years of five to six percent negative growth. \u003cbr/\u003eTwo-thirds of the North Korean export economy involves metal and mineral products.\u003cbr/\u003eThe fluctuations in the price of these commodities can be especially hard on Pyongyang's cash flow.\u003cbr/\u003eAnother problem for the country's financial position is the lack of loans from the World Bank and 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