" Kwon Tae-jin, a specialist on North Korean agriculture at the Korea Rural Economic Institute, which is funded by the South Korean government, told me in Seoul. In the far north, where food supplies are historically lean and farmers are regarded as politically hostile, the military takes a quarter of total grain production, Kwon "

― Blaine Harden , Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West