ECONOMIC INFORMATION: FOOD CONDITIONS AND COMMODITY PRICES IN CHONGJIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000900560002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 26, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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has been an especially good year for the fishermen.
The main staple food of the people in Chongjin is bean cake. Anyone ht ving
cornmeal to eat is regarded as "upper class".
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
~OUNW Korea
EJECT Rbonomic Information: Food Conditions and
Commodity Prices in Chongjin
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STATE WAR
VAny of the poor people in Chongjin have skinned the bark off pine trees
in the Chongjin area and have used it for food.
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1. In the Chongjin (Seishin) (129.'49, 41-46) area there is an acute short.
of such staple foods as rice and cornmeal,
2. Fish and other sea food, however, are plentiful and chip, because this,
3.
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5. Commodity Prices in Chongjin:
Cornmeal
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Unit
I Tu
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DIST. 0 September 1947
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Price
X00-1400 Won
1 Tu 1900 Won
1 Cake 1.100 Won
Note: lone to of rice and cornmeal each
weighs 30 chin or about 40 pounds.
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