Crisis in North Korea: Since January this year, rice prices have been increase by as much as 63.9%.., and corn prices o 70.7 percent. Only since the end of November price rice per kilogram exceeded 8 thousand. North Korean won, and corn 4.1 thousand. won. These amounts are expected to be the highest on the market since 2009.
There are many reasons for problems: The sudden price increase is expected to be influenced by, among others: state agencies monopolizing rice purchases after harvest and people who use it to buy basic products dollars or yuan. This is additionally related to the falling value of the North Korean won – traders are even refusing to sell the local currency.
Korea received rice from Russia? Let us recall that thanks to the agreement between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, they were sent to the front of the war in Ukraine. North Korean soldiers. According to South Korean intelligence and websites as compensation Pyongyang was to receive money from Moscow for sending them from 600 to 700 tons of rice.
More on this topic we wrote in the article: “This is not a joke. Military intelligence: Vladimir Putin paid for North Korean soldiers with rice“.
Source: Daily NK