Korea- North Beef

Korea- North Beef

Facts about beef in Korea- North

  • The most sever draught since 1982 in North Korea threatens to bring about the collapse of its meat industry- as well as the start of a large-scale hunger problem among its population.
  • Official information on the meat industry of north Korea will not be published and in fact- is classified. But approximate estimates suggest the average per capita rate of meat consumption in N. Korea is around 8kg per year
  • In N. Korea about 60% of all inhabitants of the country do not eat meat much at all- said Stanislav Prokopenko- a political scientist and expert on Asian Countries at Russia university.
  • According to rough estimate from Russian expert- as well as a number of observers who visited the country- the volume of meat production per 24 million people is no more than 200 000 tons of meat per year.
  • A former Ukrainian diplomat in N. Korea speaking anonymously claimed that only the wealthiest part of N. Korea society regularly eats meat and this sector of the population determines the country’s direction.