Hungry North Koreans bristle as elites feast on expensive dog meat

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While citizens in North Korea are nearly starving in the face of food price hikes and shortages, the country’s elite are feasting on one of the country’s most expensive delicacies: dog meat.

 

Meat of any kind is a rarity in the North Korean diet these days, and dog meat costs twice as much as pork. A single bowl of dog meat stew, called dangogi-jang, can cost the same as two kilograms of rice.

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This summer, while the bellies of average citizens in the country of 25 million people rumble, the most popular dog meat restaurants in Chongjin and elsewhere are still bustling with powerful military and ruling party clientele.

 

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https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/dangogi-07212022163826.html

 

 

 

[Kenny202]

I kinda laugh when I see stuff like this. Same could be said for here in some ways...villagers surviving on next to nothing eating rats and frogs and whatever they can forage. And that was before covid and Ukraine.