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May 4, 2006

Appendix

Amount of food rations under old ration system [77]

ClassRation (per day)Recipients

1900 gramsWorkers with heavy-labor or hazardous occupations

2800Miners, drivers of heavy equipment

3700Regular workers

4600College students, retired citizens of merit, patients

5500Junior high school students

6400Elementary school students

7300Retired citizens, kindergartners, other dependents

8200Children aged 2 - 4, prisoners

9100Children aged one or younger

North Korea's grain production

YearRDA estimates [78] North Korean estimates[79]

19904.020 million tons9.100 million tons

19914.427 million tons

19924.268 million tons

19933.884 million tons

19944.125 million tons7.083 million tons

19953.451 million tons3.449 million tons

19963.680 million tons2.502 million tons

19973.489 million tons2.685 million tons

19983.886 million tons3.202 million tons

19994.222 million tons4.281 million tons

20003.590 million tons3.262 million tons

20013.946 million tons

20024.134 million tons

20034.253 million tons

20044.311 million tons

20054.540 million tons4.800 million tons[80] (unofficial)

Food aid to North Korea by the international community, including China and South Korea [81]

YearAid

1995544,500 tons

1996510,000 tons

1997914,600 tons

1998812,400 tons

19991,026,800 tons

20001,263,600 tons

20011,525,600 tons

20021,209,000 tons

2003863,800 tons

2004676,300 tons

[77] "Food rations by class," Understanding North Korea 2005, Education Center for Unification, The Ministry of Unification, March 2006, pp 245-247.

[78] "Amount of Grain Production (in North Korea)," Rural Development Administration, emailed to Human Rights Watch in December 2005.

[79] DPRK second periodic report to CESCR. Economist Lee Suk says, there is a possibility North Korea exaggerated the amount of grain production until 1994, but the statistics released after 1995, the year North Korea began receiving international aid, are considered relatively trustworthy. Suk, The DPRK Famine of 1994-2000.

[80] "North Korea's Harvest Hits Record High Since 1990," Radio Free Asia, October 26, 2005.

[81] The International Food Aid Information System, WFP.