Korea Times 2/9/2007 North Korea purchased about 15,000 metric tons of rice from China late last year, reflecting a severe food shortage in the communist state, according to South Korea’s state-run trade agency Friday. The impoverished communist country imported 7,423 tons of rice in October, 3,910 tons in November and 3,928 tons in December, the … Continue reading NK Imports 15,000 Tons of Rice From China in Late 2006