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Colin Zwirko
Colin Zwirko is a Senior Analytic Correspondent for NK News based in Seoul. Follow him on Twitter @ColinZwirko.
As North Korea battles a poor economy and persistent food shortages, the country’s state media has begun to call black swans a new and valuable food source.
The introduction of the new food source comes after Kim Jong Un declared a food crisis in June and urged workers last month to come up with ways to solve the country’s persistent “food problem.”