A study of British and Norwegian scientists on the survival of the people in North Korea by Kim Jong Un has recently been published in the Biological Conservation and has been making the internet in recent hours.

Linguists North Koreans are forced to hunt, sell and eat from badgers to rare tigers to survive, while the “blacksmiths” work with regime officials to market wildlife.

Animals include the endangered Siberian tiger, the Amur leopard, bears, deer and a goat -like creature and is called Goral with the long tail.

All of these animals are either hunted and eaten, or traded for skins, organs, bones, legs and bile, used in traditional therapies.

According to the study, each mammal animal greater than about 500 grams in North Korea has become the target of hunting, either for food, as raw materials of traditional drugs, or for fur trade and other products.

“Almost every kind of mammal in North Korea, larger than a hedgehog, hunts for consumer use or trade,” said Joshua Elves-Powell of University College London, co-author of the study.

The researchers interviewed 42 North Koreans, including former hunters, consumers and wildlife dealers who escaped to South Korea or Britain.
Everyone said that the serious famine of the 1990s and the shortcomings that exist today in North Korea forced people to hunt for food on their own.