...WFP hasn’t had an active presence in the country since the COVID-19 pandemic, so current conditions are largely unknown. At December’s party plenum, state media noted “a rare harvest was...Read More
...of the COVID-19 pandemic, imagery shows multiple trucks queued, waiting to enter a customs yard in Sinuiju—the final stop before crossing into China. Figure 1. Overview of Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge....Read More
...control over private agricultural activities after the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. For example, a 2021 amendment to the Agricultural Law defined farms as “socialist agricultural enterprises” to emphasize the...Read More
...by ongoing international sanctions and the self-imposed border lockdown to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak. At that same meeting, the party adopted a “new program for socialist rural construction,” which it...Read More