food insecurity in NK or no?

here is another article out of DailyNK reporting the potential food aid from South Korea.
the editors note however reports from traders living in NK that food prices are stable and have not heard anything about people starving yet.

not sure what is going on here but i think the world food organization and UN food and agriculture organization know something that the traders don't. that is: worldwide droughts and flooding to the extreme. you can see it all over if you look.
they are alerting south korea to a potential famine like the one in the 90's

the north has been experiencing drought though and crop failures so i don't know how there couldn 't be cause for concern here.

DailyNK says they are going to get more reports from traders in NK so we'll see.

here is the report

https://www.dailynk.com/english/even-north-korean-farmers-are-starving/

here is another article that came out today.
an interview with an NK official but again, DailyNK states that no one on the ground is reporting food shortages yet.

 https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korean-official-shares-views-on-south-korean-aid/

update
recent article out of Asiapress talking to reporting partners from within NK say things are tight but people are not starving yet.

http://www.asiapress.org/rimjin-gang/2019/05/recommendations/south-to-send-support/