Residents in some provincial provinces of North Korea are under orders to submit eggs in accordance with recent instructions following the 2nd US-North Korean summit in Hanoi.
In border areas including Kim Jong Suk County, each household has been ordered to collect and submit four eggs to their respective people’s unit head.
The order’s origins can be traced back to the Hanoi summit, according to sources in Ryanggang Province.
Korean Central News Agency footage showed two children tasked with presenting Kim Jong Un with flower bouquets among the crowd greeting the leader upon his return from the summit in February. According to one source in Ryanggang Province, upon receiving the bouquets and hugging the children, Kim Jong Un asked the children if there was something in particular they’d like to eat, to which they responded “eggs.”
“This prompted Kim Jong Un to order farming regions to gather enough eggs to provide to the countries orphanages,” she said.
A separate source in Ryanggang Province who corroborated the story said that while “in cities it’s easy to purchase eggs at the markets, it’s pretty hard to scrape together four eggs in the farming regions. For families like these, who can’t provide their own kids with eggs to eat, it’s obviously incensing to have to collect them for children they’ve never even met.”
