[해외자료] North Korean Market Prices Suggest Serious Food Shortages

Recently, the BBCbecame one of few global outlets to succeed ininterviewing ordinary North Koreans inside the country about the food situation, and the picture they painted is dire: starvation, empty markets and other signs of severe food shortages.

[학위논문] 김정은 시기 북한의 농업정책 변화에 관한 연구

... the study found that rice production increased during Kim Jong-un’s regime, while maize production tended to decline. The production of domestic agricultural products such as meat, vegetables, and fruits generally remained stable or even increased for certain items. In 2021, Kim Jong-un restructured the grain production system from rice and maize to rice, wheat, and barley, which...

[학술논문] Marxism with Korean Characteristics Re-reading the Marxist Analyses of Japanese Colonialism in Korea by Korean Diasporic Revolutionaries in the USSR in the 1920-30s

...revolutionaries as Pak Chinsun or Nam Manch’un described in the 1920s Japanese colonialism in Korea as a process of exploiting the colony by extracting cheap rice and minerals from there while dumping Japanese consumer goods on the captive colonial market. In the 1930s, Valentin Kim-Serebryakov built further on this analysis, describing Japanese domination of Korean banking and industry as well as geopolitical...

[학술논문] 북한 쌀 시장의 지역 간 통합과 거래 구조

...shows that all pairs are in relative equilibrium, indicating that market integration has been established across regions. These findings offer statistical evidence of the coexistence of planned and market-based elements in the North Korean rice distribution system. In addition to price analysis, this paper delves into the North Korean rice trading network and associated transaction costs in selected regions...

[학위논문] 북한의 가격개혁과 시장가격 결정요인 분석

... rice price. North Korea’s market rice price fluctuated and coupled with the international grain price, even the pattern is similar with each other in 2007 off and on. This result could be explain that firstly, North Korean government have adjusted market rice price that they considered the demand and supply in the market, international price and exchange rate since allowed the market...