[cess11]

In that chart I see one clearly identifiable famine, after which the life expectancy started rising again. Can you perhaps take a copy and mark out the other famines?

North Korea infamously refuses foreign aid, do you have a source that describes more in detail the aid you're referring to?

[decimalenough]

The World Food Programme has been operating in North Korea for years, "when possible" (read: whenever it suits the whims of the Kims).

https://www.wfp.org/countries/democratic-peoples-republic-ko...

[oh_sigh]

The 1990s famine, if you want to call if that, is also sometimes described as a series of famines.

Here's more details about the aid I'm referring to.

700,000 tonnes in 1999 alone, from one country.

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/R40095.pdf

[cess11]

OK, could you mark where the other famines are in that graph?