By Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Despite the rise of the markets in post-1990s North Korea, the public distribution system (PDS) retains an important function in supplying grain inside the country. However, in the early 1960s, Kim Il-sung considered doing away with the official system for food distribution (식량공급제도). It is not clear how firmly such ideas … Continue reading North Korean economic history snippet: Kim Il-sung on the food supply system, 1962