Brazil shipped more than $2 million worth of corn to North Korea in the months of October and November, according to export data made public by the Brazilian federal government.

The corn shipments -- 8 million kilograms in October and 6.5 million kilograms in November -- were Brazil's only reported grain exports to the DPRK in the year 2019.

Brazil also sent 3.2 million kilograms of corn -- worth more than $569,000 at the time -- to North Korea in December 2018.

It is unclear if Pyongyang paid for the corn, or if it was sent as food aid. The