Starving North Koreans advised to eat TERRAPIN as rogue state is hit with food shortages

KIM Jong-un's starving citizens are being forced to eat TERRAPIN as the rogue state is hit with food shortages.

The North Korean leader's scientists have also introduced a range of slimming pills and potions to tackle obesity and relieve pressure on the regime's larder.

Millions of people survive on the breadline due to UN sanctions brought on by the dictator's drive for nuclear weapons.

Border closes due to Covid-19 have made the hardship worse.

Kim's nukes before nutrition policy has meant that the Naenara government mouthpiece has been giving its people hints on what they should be eating amid shortages of rice, corn, fruit, meat and fish.

"From olden times, terrapin has been used in making haute cuisine for its good taste and abundant nutrient component," the regime recommends.

"It has various essential nutrient components including protein, essential amino acid and vitamin efficacious for curing hepatitis, hypertension and other diseases.

";Its blood, carapace and bone are widely used as materials of Koryo medicines.

"In particular, its blood is efficacious for diabetes and weak children."

The reptiles can be served raw or made into a broth, stew or porridge.

The official website also encourages North Koreans to hunt for food - including bagging pheasants.

It also recommends a slimming tea developed by government doctors that will supposedly leave users "feeling full" but lead to a weight loss of 10kg in 40 days.

"Now obese people can reduce weight with ease, once a hard work for them to endure," said inventor Ri Nam.

While his people starve in poverty, the North Korean despot enjoys an allegedly extraordinary appetite.

The Kim's family ex-sushi chef Kenji Fujimoto claimed that the dictator once boasted he had consumed “10 bottles of Bordeaux" during a meal.

The supreme leader reportedly fell in love with Emmental cheese while studying in Switzerland as a teen.

Officials reportedly brought foie gras and Wagyu beef which can cost up to £240 a steak to his summit with US President Donald Trump in Vietnam last February.

Cavier and lobster are also reportedly part of Kim's palate although both are banned from being imported into North Korea by the UN.

The five month border closure with China during the coronavirus pandemic has reportedly worsened nutrition to an "alarming level," according to the UN.

"An increasing number of families eat only twice a day, or eat only corn, and some are starving," said the UN.

Around 10million North Koreans - 40 percent of its population faced malnutrition, Elizabeth Byrs, spokeswomen for the UN World Food Program revealed.

"Long term damage to the health and development of children as well as pregnant and nursing mothers was evident," Byrs added.