The New York Times reports that Pyongyang is using claims to a bumper harvest this year to place restrictions on international organizations and NGOs operating in North Korea.

Richard Ragan of the World Food Program in North Korea said that the communist state was still short 700,000 or 800,000 tons of food, despite its boasts that harvests are 10 percent larger than last year’s.

NGOs operating in the North, which have been notified to leave the country or to change their operations from humanitarian aid to developmental assistance, are now mulling over how to deal with the situation.