The hunger crisis in North Korea cannot cross the escalating nuclear ambitions of Kim Jong-un

Kim Jong-UN has described the expansion of a massive greenhouse farm project in view of growing fears of an acute nationwide hunger as a "highest priority", although his regime invests in its nuclear arsenal.

The North Korean head of state took part in the opening ceremony of the huge "Ryonpho" greenhouse complex, which was built on a former air force base and rocket test site, reported state media on Tuesday.

He was to see how he was holding green peppers in his hand during the trip and playfully exchanged his hats with a high -ranking military officer when he demanded that more vegetables were to be grown.

The farm is said to include more than 850 blocks of modern greenhouses with an area of 280 hectares that are to be combined with around 1,000 houses, schools as well as cultural and service facilities, said the official news agency KCNA.

But NK News, which published the photos of Rodong Sinmun, said that satellite images indicate that the website is not yet finished.

Even such a big complex will not be able to ward off an increasing hunger crisis caused by adverse weather events, as well as sanctions to contain the escalating nuclear ambitions and the economic isolation of Pyongyang after the pariah state has reached its limits to keep covid-19

"The extent of the food deficit is absolutely enormous," Prof. Hazel Smith from the Center for Korea Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in July to The Telegraph.

She said that the current level of nutritional uncertainty was the same as in the devastating hunger years of the 1990s.

An estimated 240,000 to 3.5 million people died of hunger or hunger -related diseases during the North Korean famine from 1994 to 1998, which is also known as "severe march"

But the increasing hunger does not seem to have distracted his main goal of building up his nuclear weapons capacities.

On Monday, state media revealed that Kim personally supervised a flood of rocket tests that aimed at hit South Korean destinations with tactical nuclear weapons.

Yoon Suk-Yeol, the South Korean President, accused Pyongyang on Tuesday, "not only to threaten our Republic of Korea, but the world with nuclear weapons," and said that the north had nothing to win from it.

his government asked North Korea to "immediately stop any additional provocations".