UN Says food shortage in North Korea growing "acute"

An article I came across in this morning's express (taken from AP) says that North Korea is sending millions of people from cities out to work on farms each weekend...

I remember in the beginning of the idiots guide, the authors sort of downplayed the amount of food shortage/scarcity going on in North Korea saying somethign along the lines of it's a problem, but not as big a problem as the US claims it to be.

However, in this case it seems the World Food Program (the only aide group with a presence outside Pyongyang) says that there have been massive movements of people to the countryside...