Turning back the clock: The changing nature of North Korean food insecurity

Marcus Noland
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Over the past several years, North Korea has adopted legal changes that are increasing the centrality of the Workers Party of Korea and the state in agricultural production, distribution, and consumption. This development changes the basic nature of food insecurity in North Korea from one in which access to food is determined by the ability to purchase it in the market to one in which access to food is determined by political status. This development is of potential policy relevance: Although current conditions do not appear to be severe, if and when North Korea experiences another food crisis, foreign partners are likely to encounter a state-dominated model resembling the system that existed in the early 1990s at the onset of the famine and with it the attendant problems that humanitarian-relief agencies confronted at that time.
时钟倒转:朝鲜粮食不安全的变化性质
在过去的几年里,朝鲜对法律进行了修改,增加了朝鲜劳动党和国家在农业生产、分配和消费方面的中心地位。这一发展改变了朝鲜粮食不安全的基本性质,从获得粮食的能力取决于在市场上购买粮食的能力,转变为获得粮食的能力取决于政治地位。这一发展具有潜在的政策相关性:尽管目前的情况似乎并不严重,但如果朝鲜再次经历粮食危机,外国合作伙伴可能会遇到一个国家主导的模式,类似于20世纪90年代初饥荒开始时存在的系统,以及当时人道主义救援机构面临的随之而来的问题。
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