{"id":47400,"date":"2021-01-08T13:41:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T04:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=47400"},"modified":"2021-01-08T13:42:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T04:42:15","slug":"printing-north-korean-2021-calendars-delayed-lack-imported-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/printing-north-korean-2021-calendars-delayed-lack-imported-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Printing of North Korean 2021 calendars delayed due to lack of imported ink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea reportedly ran into difficulties printing up its 2021 calendars due to a lack of materials imported from China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a telephone conversation with Daily NK on Thursday, a source in Yanggang Province said printers in Pyongyang were delayed in printing up the calendars \u201cbecause they couldn\u2019t get printing ink.\u201d The source said that publishers \u201cjust barely distributed the calendars by the end of the year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means that while publishers such as Shining Star Publishing House and Foreign Languages Publishing House print up calendars every year, they were late in doing so this year because none of them could get their hands on enough imported ink to print all their calendars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Publishing companies usually produce and distribute the next year\u2019s calendars between late November and early December, but this year, they had to wait until late December to get their calendars out, a delay of about a month or a month and a half.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of this, there were even rumors among merchants that calendars would not be produced for 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Publishing houses hurriedly began printing calendars in middle to late December, but because they could not get enough ink, they printed far fewer copies than in years past, said the source.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47401\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/\ub2ec\ub825-\ud3b8\uc9d1\ubcf8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/\ub2ec\ub825-\ud3b8\uc9d1\ubcf8.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/\ub2ec\ub825-\ud3b8\uc9d1\ubcf8-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/\ub2ec\ub825-\ud3b8\uc9d1\ubcf8-768x713.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/\ub2ec\ub825-\ud3b8\uc9d1\ubcf8-696x646.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/\ub2ec\ub825-\ud3b8\uc9d1\ubcf8-452x420.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2021 North Korean calendar provided by a source in the country. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout the country, with calendars in short supply, market prices for them are reportedly six times what they were last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As recently as last year, North Koreans exchanged calendars as gifts on the New Year, but this was rarely seen this year with calendars not only hard to find but also expensive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some North Koreans are saying that calendars are in such short supply this year they will become \u201csymbols of wealth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, a look at the calendars shows that print quality is greatly inferior to years past, said the source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea absorbs profits from calendar sales into Workers&#8217; Party coffers, but it seems 2021 will not be a lucrative year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, North Korean trade with China posted its lowest numbers ever last year. According to China\u2019s General Administration of Customs, trade between North Korea and China in November amounted to just USD 1,273,000, about USD 400,000 less than the previous monthly low of USD 1,659,000 it recorded in October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sino-North Korean trade has continued to fall since the closure of the border, hitting new record lows by the end of last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt appears the side-effects of suspending trade are gradually growing worse,\u201d said the source. \u201cPeople were pretty shocked to hear that calendars couldn\u2019t get printed due to ink shortages.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/2021%eb%85%84-%e5%8c%97-%ec%83%88%ed%95%b4-%eb%8b%ac%eb%a0%a5-%ec%9e%89%ed%81%ac-%eb%b6%80%ec%a1%b1%ec%9c%bc%eb%a1%9c-%ec%9d%b8%ec%87%84-%ed%95%9c-%eb%8b%ac-%ec%a7%80%ec%97%b0\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea reportedly ran into difficulties printing up its 2021 calendars due to a lack of materials imported from China. In a telephone conversation with Daily NK on Thursday, a source in Yanggang Province said printers in Pyongyang were delayed in printing up the calendars \u201cbecause they couldn\u2019t get printing ink.\u201d The source said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":47401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Printing of North Korean 2021 calendars delayed due to lack of imported ink - North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/printing-north-korean-2021-calendars-delayed-lack-imported-ink\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Printing of North Korean 2021 calendars delayed due to lack of imported ink\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"North Korea reportedly ran into difficulties printing up its 2021 calendars due to a lack of materials imported from China. 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