Stacey Dooley is pregnant: Presenter, 35, reveals she is expecting her first child with Kevin Clifton, 39, as she says bump was becoming 'impossible to hide' North Korea is heavily reliant on its Communist neighbor as sanctions mean that it is unable to trade publicly with other countries. The country has faced a supply crisis ever since it closed its border with China in January 2020 due to the pandemic. In September, four child kidnappings were reported amid shortages of food, medicines, fuel and other essentials. The impoverished country's food shortages are such that poorer citizens have resorted to kidnapping children of the wealthy, while the regime has recommended people eat 'delicious' black swan meat. I think a lot of people who saw the graffiti will have agreed with it, but they would have been too scared to say so out loud.' 'It is expected that the people there are loyal because their lives are better than those elsewhere, so the authorities will be worried that the elite are unhappy. Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor at Tokyo's Waseda University and the author of a number of books on the Kim dynasty, told The Telegraph: 'To have a message such as this appear on a wall in Pyongyang will have been a shock to the authorities and to ordinary people. Pictured: File image of men plowing a field in North Korea in July 2017 Kim has acknowledged a 'tense' food situation that could worsen if all of the crops fail, exacerbating economic problems amid strict self-imposed border and movement restrictions that have slowed trade to a trickle.