[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.

[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...