Search Results for: china buffer/feed/rss2/Alexandra Ma quotes Hazel Smith (of whom you’ll recall that I’m no great fan) who says these deals involve “North Korean companies of all sizes,” are ratified by the state, and are often verbal contracts to help conceal their existence. But not to worry, says Smith: “Fish is, cannot be, and has never been seen as a major form of protein for the majority of people in North Korea." Sure it can. People have dried, smoked, and salted fish since the middle ages, and dried fish can keep for years. Any country that can figure out how to enrich uranium can master the technology for drying and shrink-wrapping fish and squid.