The "Children’s Foodstuffs" factory in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, has a proud tradition of nourishing generations of the country’s children with its fresh and powdered milk and delicious soybean yogurt drinks.
Every morning at 7am, dozens of delivery vans set out from its regional branches to deliver nutritional products to thousands of kindergartens. Such is the importance of their mission that the vans are afforded the same status as ambulances on North Korea’s, admittedly empty, roads.
“Cars need to give way to the soy milk delivery vans. They are called ‘kings’ cars’ because our Great Leader said that the children of our country are king,” said Cha Song-Chol, the chief of technology,…