Take one look at North Korea’s food security situation and you’ll find reports of severe shortages — nearly 60% of DPRK citizens suffer from food security, according to one recent report, and the U.N. World Food Programme called last year’s crop yield “the worst harvest in 10 years.”

But North Korean agriculture looks very rosy, so long as one believes the state’s official assertions of an unusually productive “bumper harvest.”

However, data put forth by the DPRK appear to be somewhat dubious, all while the situation in agricultural management also remains unclear. Significant