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Even so, work by Yang and others has proved that senior leaders in Beijing knew of the famine as early as 1958. To distribute resources evenly will only ruin the Great Leap Forward, Mao warned colleagues a year later. When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death.
North Korean famine. The North Korean famine (Hangul: ë¶íê¸°ê·¼), which together with the accompanying general economic crisis are known as the Arduous March (ChosÅn'gÅ­l: ê³ ëì íêµ°) in North Korea, occurred in North Korea from 1994 to 1998. The famine stemmed from a variety of factors.