Food grown for starving North Koreans 'shipped to Kim Jong-un's 'elite' instead'
dailystar.co.ukNorth Korean food project that promised to give residents in a rural province more vegetables than they would ever need has actually been given to the country's elites, according to sources.The greenhouse farm project, which was created by authorities and was the first of its kind in North Korea, features 300 greenhouses in a 490-acre farm.
It was started in Jungphyong village, which is part of Kyongsong county in the northeastern province of North Hamgyong, Radio Free Asia reports. “The authorities loudly propagated that the residents of North Hamgyong and Kyongsong county would greatly benefit from the greenhouse construction project, but the vegetables ended up not being for people like us,” a resident of the county told RFA’s Korean Service. “Last week, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported that the Jungphyong Vegetable Greenhouse Farm had produced about 10,000 tons of fresh produce, including cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce and crown daisy,” said the source.
In the newspaper report, it says the vegetables were delivered to the people in the province last year, but the source claims this never actually happened."But in actuality, ordinary residents of Kyongsong county have never been given a single vegetable grown from those greenhouses,” he said.To make things more unfair, the authorities allegedly relied on residents of the county to build the project in the first place.“They worked for over a year.
Not many people complained because they had the hope that they would be able to eat their fill of vegetables in the very near future,” the source said.“None of the vegetables went to the province. "I heard from a friend who works at the greenhouse farm that most of the vegetables were selected as a No.
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