Overview

Chinese Government provides food aid to North Korea at the beginning of 2020

Commitment Year•2020Country of Activity•Democratic People's Republic of KoreaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•Democratic People's Republic of KoreaSector•Developmental Food Aid/food Security AssistanceFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Implementation

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Jan 1, 2020

Geospatial footprint

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The supplies was last reported to be seen on the Sopo Railway station: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/253778564

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Government of North Korea

Loan description

Chinese Government provides food aid to North Korea at the beginning of 2020

Narrative

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Project narrative

According to a report from Radio Free Asia, at the beginning of 2020, the Chinese government began sending large amounts of food aid to North Korea by train. The food aid included corn, wheat, and soybean oil, and possibly also rice. The shipments were to last several months, and were estimated to reach a total of hundreds of thousands of tons. In order to accommodate the transportation of the food aid, China planned to halt passage of general commercial cargo to North Korea. The aid was shipped from Dandong Station in China to Sopo Station in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Staff comments

An Asahi Shimbun article mentions that China sent between 500,000 and 600,000 tons of food before June 2020- unconfirmed if this overlaps with the food shipments covered in the RFA article.