Produce cultivated at the 6.17 Farm in
\nPyongyang, which grows vegetables and fruit for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
\nand his family, is going under strict screening for quality and harmful
\nsubstances. This has prompted a spread in rumors that the leader has developed
\na peculiar phobia about his greens, Daily NK has learned. <\/p>\n
\u201cInspections for produce for Kim Jong Un Another of Daily NK\u2019s sources in the \u201cThe produce that will go to Kim Jong Un is “Grade The 6.17 Farm was built in the 1980s under There are five units, each comprising approximately 80 workers, tasked with growing \u201cThe carefully selected vegetables are The workers growing produce for Kim Jong Un \u201cInspections were strict during Kim Il Sung The 6.17 Farm is under the Mt. Keumsoo Produce cultivated at the 6.17 Farm in Pyongyang, which grows vegetables and fruit for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his family, is going under strict screening for quality and harmful substances. This has prompted a spread in rumors that the leader has developed a peculiar phobia about his greens, Daily NK has learned. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":31137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"\n
\ncoming out of the 6.17 Farm in Pyongyang\u2019s Yongsong District have become
\nstricter,\u201d a Pyongyang source currently residing near the border area with
\nChina told Daily NK on Tuesday. \u201cInstead of just going through farm
\ninspections, the produce needs to go all the way up through the Escort Bureau
\nin order to receive the green light before being presented (to the leader).\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n
\ncapital verified the information reported by this specific source. Any
\nadditional information on the sources is kept confidential for their protection as their reporting places them in great peril on a daily basis. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nfirst washed thoroughly. It then goes through inspections by specific
\ndepartments before being handed over for an executive examination and is
\nfinally being shipped out as a grade (8 or 9) product,\u201d she said. <\/span><\/p>\n
\n8 or 9 products are set aside for Kim Jong Un and his family. But recently, units under the Escort Bureau tasked with transporting the produce have been
\nconducting an additional final screening.”<\/span><\/p>\n
\norders from Kim Jong Il, according to the source. The farm, said to produce
\nsuperior fruits and vegetables in greenhouses scattered across an estate of 6 hectares nestled in the mountains, got its name from a
\nmandate issued by the former leader to provide the best possible produce for
\nhis father, Kim Il Sung.<\/span> <\/p>\n
\ndifferent produce on the farm. Farm
\nresearchers frequently travel abroad for their work to study a wide array of fruits and vegetables as well as the feasibility of growing them back in North Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nexamined by their respective units each day before undergoing final inspection.
\nMicroscopes are used to look for germs, toxins, and other harmful elements,\u201d
\nshe explained. \u201cThe Escort Bureau officials reexamine the produce every day at
\n10:00 a.m. before shipping out the ones that pass final inspections, so the
\nproduce is provided on a day-to-day basis.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n
\nare people with good songbun [family political background and loyalty] and are
\nusually single people in their 20s, according to the source. \u201cInspectors are
\nPyongyang citizens with immaculate songbun and status who have graduated from
\nPyongyang Medical University; they\u2019ll spend minutes on one single leaf of
\nlettuce.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n
\nand Kim Jong Il\u2019s times, but the atmosphere of inspections under Kim Jong Un is
\nas if the state is looking to catch spies,\u201d the source said, adding that workers have
\ncommented on these stepped up examinations saying Kim Jong Un not only fears
\ninstabilities in the system but has now come to even fear his own greens.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nAssembly Hall accounting department and is referred to as the \u2018\u201c6-hectares\u201d by
\nmembers of the public. Others places designated for food and produce
\nspecifically for Kim Jong Un and others in the higher echelons of power in
\nNorth Korea are Pyongyang\u2019s Yongsong Special Food Factory, the Yeokpo Precinct
\nPig Farm, and the Yeokpo Precinct Mushroom Research Center.<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"