{"id":64729,"date":"2025-09-05T14:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=64729"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:46:36","slug":"north-korea-builds-grain-centers-to-tighten-control-over-food-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-builds-grain-centers-to-tighten-control-over-food-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea builds grain centers to tighten control over food distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">A grain management center under construction in Hwangju county, North Hwanghae province, since February will be completed this fall. Inside North Korea, concern is growing that authorities plan to intensify control over grain production, distribution and sales in line with recent revisions to the country&#8217;s grain law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">According to a Daily NK source in North Korea recently, builders have erected roughly half the framework of the grain management center in Hwangju. Not only have regional construction companies been mobilized for the project, but army engineers have also been deployed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">Construction costs are being shared by the central government, province and county on a 1:2:7 ratio, with authorities working diligently to avoid poor-quality construction\u2014they even use the phrase &#8220;a plan that lasts 10,000 years&#8221; to emphasize precision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">Grain management centers are under construction in six locations across North Hwanghae province this year alone, including in Unpa county and Yontan county.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Modern complexes, not simple warehouses<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">These grain management centers are not merely storage warehouses. They are designed as modern facilities that will select and process grain for long-term storage, as well as directly distribute grain after packaging it hygienically, the source explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toured construction sites for provincial factories in late August 2024, during which he ordered the simultaneous construction of public health facilities, technology provision offices and grain management centers. He emphasized, &#8220;Do not simply renovate existing facilities, but build new management centers to store grain and ensure food quality.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">While Kim ostensibly called for modernizing grain distribution, people believe his real objective is for the state to completely control grain distribution. Behind the slogan to &#8220;improve people&#8217;s lives&#8221; lies the political calculation to control citizens by exercising a monopoly over food distribution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;For people, eating is the most important issue, and for the state to take responsibility for this is extremely significant from the supreme leader&#8217;s perspective,&#8221; the source said. Accordingly, Kim &#8220;appears strongly determined to monopolize food distribution.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">This goal aligns with North Korea&#8217;s legal framework. The country&#8217;s grain law, amended in 2022, added &#8220;sales&#8221; to existing provisions covering the &#8220;procurement, storage, processing, distribution and consumption&#8221; of grain. This legally restricted autonomous grain sales in markets, granting the state authority to sell grain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">In Article 1 of the amended grain law, North Korea stated it would &#8220;strictly establish a system and order in the procurement, storage, processing, distribution, sale and consumption of grain.&#8221; Regarding grain procurement, the law replaced language about &#8220;timely acquisition&#8221; with specific wording on &#8220;seamlessly organizing harvests, threshing, drying, packaging and transport.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Completing the control framework<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">With the construction of grain management centers, North Korea will have completed its roadmap for strengthening centralized control through interconnected laws, policies, and physical infrastructure. North Korea established the legal foundation with its 2022 law revision, consolidated its policy direction with Kim&#8217;s 2024 order, and entered the implementation phase with grain management center construction in 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">Overall management of these centers will be handled by the Ministry of Grain Management, while the centers&#8217; directors, technical heads, party secretaries and procurement managers, along with processing teams, storage teams and security teams, will operate under a management system spanning both provincial and city or county people&#8217;s committees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;The system looks comprehensive on paper, but practical problems could emerge, such as electricity shortages, lack of technical personnel and logistical deficiencies,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;The centers have the organizational structure, but they face serious risks of being less effective in reality.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;The government promotes this project as a &#8216;policy for the people,&#8217; but it remains unclear whether the state&#8217;s centralization of food distribution will lead to concrete improvements in citizens&#8217; lives,&#8221; the source added. &#8220;If they simply restrict grain sales that were previously handled in markets, it could create negative effects such as soaring food prices due to supply shortages.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20250828-5\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grain management center under construction in Hwangju county, North Hwanghae province, since February will be completed this fall. 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