For most of their lives spent in a small farming village in North Korea, Ms Eline Park and her family grew and ate corn instead of rice. The corn was dried and cooked like rice, eaten with kimchi and pickles.
“We called it corn rice. It was hard to chew, but we were poor and didn’t have enough to eat,” the 25-year-old told The Sunday Times.
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