This is according to a trader who accompanied the author on the trip. Indeed, China-DPRK trade volume for April of this year was tallied at approximately USD 326 million (approximately KRW 498.8 billion) — recording its highest level in approximately eight years and five months since November 2017.

The official organ of the Korean Workers' Party, Rodong Sinmun, reported on the 20th that "a great transformation is occurring in the orientation of the nation's agricultural production in the new era of rural revitalization opened up by the great Korean Workers' Party, and the material and technical foundations guaranteeing sustained and stable growth are being further consolidated." Ch'usŏk is a representative folk holiday on which people express gratitude for a bountiful h