In North Korea, a country where having enough to eat has been far from guaranteed for decades, food has long been political, a reality being borne out again as burgeoning cooperation with Russia transforms people’s diets.
During the Arduous March famine of the 1990s, the DPRK experienced a so-called potato revolution when official propaganda attempted to shift dietary habits and place the humble famine substitute at the top of the food pyramid, largely unsuccessfully.
In North Korea, a country where having enough to eat has been far from guaranteed for decades, food has long been political, a reality being borne out again as burgeoning cooperation with Russia transforms people’s diets.
During the Arduous March famine of the 1990s, the DPRK experienced a so-called potato revolution when official propaganda attempted to shift dietary habits and place the humble famine substitute at the top of the food pyramid, largely unsuccessfully.
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